Teaching Knowledge database Q-S

Quantifiers are words put before nouns to show how many there are.

Rapport in language learning refers to the relationship between the teacher and the learners.

A rating scale is a scale against which a learner's performance is rated, producing a quantifiable result.

Re-duplicatives are one of the many ways new words are made in English.

Realia are real things that are brought to the class and used as a resource.

Received pronunciation, or RP, refers to an accent in English regarded by many people as a ‘standard' accent.

The receptive skills are listening and reading, because learners do not need to produce language to do these, they receive and understand it.

Recycling is practising language that learners have seen previously.

Referential questions are questions you ask someone because you don't know the answer.