- L1: the language someone grows up speaking (“1st Language”)
- L2: the language someone learns as an adult (“2nd Language” – at LETC we generally refer to English as the students’ L2, but keep in mind, someone may have already learned other languages!)
- corrective feedback: feedback is how you respond to someone’s writing (or speaking), and corrective feedback is when you offer error corrections, e.g. correcting the use of past tense, offering a different word for a better fit, or suggesting that a student reorganize the sentences in a paragraph
- recast: a recast is a rephrasing of something a learner has written (or said), in order to make it sound more natural or more intelligible
- SLA: Second Language Acquisition; the field of research which concerns itself with understanding the process by which someone learns another language
- Instructed SLA: the field of research which investigates the connections between types of instruction and exposure to another language, and the process of language learning
- TESL: Teaching English as a Second Language (in a second language setting, the target language to be learned is spoken all around)
- TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language (in a foreign language setting, the target language to be learned is only spoken in the classroom, like in college foreign language classes)
- TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (this refers to the learners, not the setting, and so it doesn't distinguish TESL from TEFL)
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Glossary of terms
I will try to continue to update this glossary to include terms and jargon that will help you read more technical or research-oriented articles, books, blogs, etc. Please post in the comments if you would like me to add a term!
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