This document provides definitions for key terms related to childhood education and language teaching approaches. It defines phonics as a method for teaching reading through letter sounds and drills as exercises used to acquire knowledge. It also defines digital literacy as skills for finding, using, evaluating and communicating information using technology. Additionally, it defines multiple intelligences as mental abilities for understanding information, and the silent period as a time when students feel unable to communicate orally in a foreign language.

1. GLOSSARY
Aránzazu Ricote Rodríguez
Yara Labrador López
2nd Childhood Education

2. INDEX
• Approach
• Phonics
• Digital literaly
• Multiple intelligences
• Targets languages
• Mother tongue
• ESL
• EFL
• Silent Period
• Acquisition vs Learning
• TPR
• Drills

3. APPROACH
An approach is axiomatic. It describes the
nature of the subject matter to be taught. It
states a point of view, a philosophy, an article
of faith - something which one believes but
cannot necessarily prove. It is often unarguable
except in terms of the effectiveness of the
methods which grow out of it.

4. • It´s a method of teaching people to read
and pronounce words by learning the
sounds of letters, letter groups, and
syllables.
PHONICS
• Also, teaching reading by training
beginners to associate letters with
their sound values.

5. DIGITAL LITERACY
Digital literacy is concerned with wider aspects associated with
learning how to effectively find, use, summarize, evaluate,
create, and communicate information while using digital
technologies, not just being literate at using a computer.

6. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
• It´s mental abilities to create, assimilate and understand
information to use properly to solve problems.

7. TARGET LANGUAGES
• It´s the language you want the document translated into.

8. MOTHER TONGUE
• It´s the first language that a person
speaks the best and so is often the
basis for sociolinguistic identity.

9. ESL

10. EFL
• English as a Foreign Language.

11. SILENT PERIOD
• It´s an interval or time during which students feel unable to
communicate orally in the foreign language.

12. ACQUISITION vs LANGUAGE
• Acquisition is a process of learning and leanning is a process of
gaining skill or awareness.

13. TPR
• Total Physical Response.
• It can be considered as a from of
communicative language teaching.

14. DRILLS
• It's exercises and practices with being
made in order to acquire knowledge.