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Knowing the subject
Teaching knowledge database
Accuracy
Achievement test
Acquisition
Action research
Adverbial clause
Affective factors
Affective strategies
Affixes
Affricative
Aims
Allomorph
Allophone
Alveolar consonants
Anaphoric reference
Anchoring
Antonym
Applied linguistics
Approach
Appropriacy
ARC
Aspect
Assimilation
Asynchronous learning
Audience
Audio-lingualism
Authentic
Authentic task
Autonomy
Auxiliary verb
Awareness-raising
Backchaining
Blending
Blog
Bodily/kinaesthetic intelligence
Bottom up
Brainstorming
Cataphoric reference
Categorisation
Catenation
CBT
Choral repetition
Chunks
Class contract
Class library
Class reader
Class round-up
Class survey
Class-centred teaching
Classroom management
Clause
Cleft sentence
CLIL
Cline
Clipping
Closed pairs
Cloze
Cognate
Cognitive overload
Cognitive strategies
Cognitive style
Cognitive theory
Cognitive-code approach
Coherence
Cohesion
Collaborative activity
Collocation
Communicative approach
Communicative competence
Community-building software
Compensation strategies
Compound word
Comprehensible input
Concept checking
Concept qs
Concord
Congruency
Conjunction
Connected speech
Connotation
Consciousness-raising
Consolidation
Consonant cluster
Content validity
Content words
Contextualisation
Continuous assessment
Controlled language
Controlled practice
Correction code
Counselling
Countable
Criterion-referenced test
Critical period hypothesis
Cued Articulation
Cuisenaire rods
Curriculum
De-contextualised
De-lexicalised verbs
Deductive approach
Delayed correction
Descriptive grammar
Determiner
Diagnostic
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Dictogloss
Diglossia
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Direct method
Discourse
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Discourse markers
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E-learning
EAP
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Editing stage
EFL
Elicitation
Elision
Ellipsis
ELT
Embedding
Emoticons
Empathy
Empowerment
Englishes
Errors
ESOL
ESP
Exploitation
Exposure
Extended speaking
Extension task
Extensive reading
Extrinsic
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Facilitation
False friends
Feedback
Field-dependent learners
Field-independent learners
Find someone who activity
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Fluency
Formal assessment
Formative assessment
Fossilization
Free practice
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Generative grammar
Genre
Gist
Global comprehension
Gloss
Glottal stop
Goal
Gradable adjectives
Graded language
Graded readers
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Group dynamics
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Guided discovery
Guided writing
Higher-order questions
Holistic approach
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Homophone
Horseshoe layout
Humanistic
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Ice-breakers
ICT
Idioms
Immersion programme
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Inference
Informal assessment
Information gap
Initiation-response-feedback (IRF)
Input
Intensifier
Intensive reading
Interaction patterns
Interactional
Interactive White Blackboard - IWB
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Interlanguage
Interlocutor
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Intonation
Intransitive
Intrapersonal intelligence
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Intrusion
Jigsaw
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Key points
Kinesics
L1
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Language Aptitude
Language usage
Language use
Learner training
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Medium of instruction
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Objective test
Observation checklist
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Productive skills
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