1. Dr. Comfort Pratt
Associate Professor
Bilingual Education and Secondary Education
College of Education, Texas Tech University

2. Term – Word or expression that is
peculiar to a field
Acronym – Word formed from the
initial letters of other words

3.  ASL – American Sign Language
 BFLA – Bilingual First Language Acquisition
 BICS – Basic Interpersonal Communication
Skills.
 CAH – Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
 CALL – Computer –Assisted Language
Learning
 CALP - Cognitive Academic Language
Proficiency

4.  CLAD - Culturally and Linguistically
Diverse
 CLT – Communicative Language
Teaching
 CPH – Critical Period Hypothesis
 EL - English Learner
 ELL - English Language Learner
 ELT – English Language Teaching
 ELD - English Language Development

5.  ESL - English as a Second Language
 ESP – English for Specific Purposes
 EFL - English as a Foreign Language
 FLA – First Language Acquisition
 IQ – Intelligence Quotient
 L1 - First Language, Native Language, Mother
Tongue
 L2 - Second Language, Foreign Language
 LEP - Limited English Proficient
 NS - Native Speaker
 NNS - Non-Native Speaker

6.  SLA - Second Language Acquisition
 SLL - Second Language Learner
 TEFL – Teaching English as a Foreign
Language
 TESL – Teaching English as a Second
Language
 TESOL – Teaching English to Students of
Other Languages
 TOEFL – Test of English as a Foreign
Language

7.  TPR – Total Physical Response
 UG – Universal Grammar
 ZPD – Zone of Proximal Development