Terms about I'm learning in my class

1. GLOSSARY

2. TPR “Total Physical Response”
A teaching technique where by a learner (usually young learner)
responds to language input with body motions.

3. Acquisition vs learning
Is a subconscious process identical in a important ways to the
process children utilize in acquiring their first language, and
learning is a conscious process that result in knowing about the
rules of language.

4. Mother tongue
A person's native language that is, a language learned from birth.

5. Silent period
Is the idea that when a language is learned, there should be a
period in which the learner is not expected to actively produce
any language. This is based on observations of a listening period
in infants when they learn a first language.

6. EFL "English as a Foreign Language“
A traditional term for the use or study of the English language by
non native speakers in countries where English is generally not a
local medium of communication.

7. ESL “English as a Second Language”
Students whose first language is something other than English are
referred to as "English Language Learners" and are often
designated as ESL in order to receive accommodations and
support with their language acquisition goals.

8. Drill
Is a classroom technique used to practise new language. It involves
the teacher modelling a word or a sentence and the learners
repeating it.

9. Approach
The method used or steps taken in setting about a task.

10. Phonics
Is a method of teaching young learners how to read which
focuses on how letters make sounds, and how these sounds
make words. It can be compared with the whole word, or 'Look
and say' approach, which focuses on recognising words.

11. Digital literacy
Is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create
information using digital technology.

12. Multiple Intelligence
Theory says that there are at least eight different kinds of
intelligence, and that human beings possess all of them to
different degrees. Learners' profiles of intelligences will affect
their preferences when learning.

13. Target language
Is the language learners are studying, and also the individual items
of language that they want to learn, or the teacher wants them
to learn.