A glossary we've made for english class

1. 2º year of Early Childhood Education
Rosa María Gilsanz
MªCarmen Zarco

2.  TPR is a language teaching method where
instructors give commands to students in the
target language, and students respond with
whole-body actions. Learning by doing.

3.  Target language:
A language that a n
onnative speaker is
in the process of
learning.
 Mother tongue:
a person's native la
nguage. It’s the
first language.

4.  Digital literacy: It’s the
familiarity with computer
s and how they work
 Literacy:the ability to use
language proficiently. Skill.

5.  Howard Gardner`s theory who identified seven
distinct intelligences:

6.  English a first language
(EFL): is the use of
english as a native
language.
 English as a second
language (ESL): is the use
or study of English by
speakers with
different native languages.
 The silent period, or preproduction, is a stage
in second language acquisition where learners
do not attempt to speak. Silent periods are
more common in children than in adult learners.

7.  Approach: it’s a
method to teach or
learning something.
 Drill: Disciplined, repetitious
exercise as a means of
teaching and perfecting a
skill or procedure.

8.  Phonics is a method for
teaching reading and writing of the English
language in order to teach the
correspondence between these sounds and
the spelling patterns (graphemes) that
represent them.

9.  Children acquire language through a
subconscious process during which they are
unaware of grammatical rules. This is similar
to the way they acquire their first language.
They get a feel for what is and what isn’t
correct.

10.  Children acquire language through a
subconscious process during which they are
unaware of grammatical rules. This is similar
to the way they acquire their first language.
They get a feel for what is and what isn’t
correct.