Glossary of terms relevent to the ESL profession. This glossary includes terms related to English, ESL, EFL, grammar,TESOL, TEFL, pedagogy, and jobs.
I took this ESL Education Glossary from BogglesWorldESL.com. For my convenience and the source references listed. It is a glossary of terms from grammar to professional/education. The links will go to the BooglesWorld ESL Glossary definition pages.
This glossary has been compiled from a variety of sources both in print and on-line, but the following five resources have been particularly insightful:
- Brown, D. (1994), Teaching by Principles, Prentice Hall Regents.
- Brown, D. (1994), Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, Prentice Hall Regents.
- Lewis, Michael (1993), The Lexical Approach, Hove: Language Teaching Publications.
- Lightbrown, P. and Spada, N. (1993), How Languages are Learned, Oxford University Press.
- Nattinger, J. and DeCarrico, J. (1992), Lexical phrases and Language Teaching, Oxford University Press.
acquisition
acquisition-learning
hypothesis
active voice
additive bilingualism
adjective clause
adverbial clause
affective feedback
affective filter
affective filter hypothesis
appositive
approach
articles
audiolingual method
aural learner
automatic processing
Behavioralism
bottom-up
Caretaker talk
chunk
clause
CELTA
CLT
cognitive feedback
collocates
communicative approach
comprehensible input
concordance
conditional
content-centered eduation
critical period hypothesis
Dangling participle
de-lexicalized words
designer methods
direct method
EAP
EFL
embedded questions
error correction
ESL
ESOL
ESP
extrinsic motivation
Faulty parallelism
first conditional
fluency
fossilization
functional English
functional syllabus
Ggerund
get it right from the beginning
get it right in the end
grammar translation method
grammatical morphemes
H
Innatism
input hypothesis
instrumental motivation
interactionism
interlanguage
integrative motivation
intrinsic motivation
Just listen
K
L1
L2
learner-centered
learning
lexical approach
lexical phrase
lexis
limited bilingualism
listen for the gist
Method
midnight run
misplaced modifier
modals
monitor hypothesis
monitor model
Natural order hypothesis
nonrestrictive clauses
noun clause
O
Participle
passive voice
past participle
perfect participle
phrasal verb
polyword
present participle
pragmatic competence
privates
QRealia
recruiter
recruitment fee
rejoinder
restrictive clause
Say what you mean
second conditional
sheltered instruction
silent way
skimming
split infinitive
structural syllabus
STT
student-centered
subjunctive mood
subordinate clause
subtractive bilingualism
syllabus
Task
task-based learning
teacher-centered
teacher talk
teach what is teachable
TESL
TESOL
third conditional
TOEIC
TOEFL
top-down
total physical response
TPR
TTT
Universal grammar
use
usage
VESL
visual learners
W
Zero conditional