Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about the past.

The natural order hypothesis is the idea that children learning their first language acquire grammatical structures in a pre-determined, 'natural' order, and that some are acquired earlier than others.

Naturalistic intelligence is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory, although not as widely accepted as other types.

Needs analysis involves doing some kind of activity with a learner in order to find out what their learning needs are.

Negotiation of meaning is a process that speakers go through to reach a clear understanding of each other.

Neologisms are words or phrases that are invented to describe either new things or to give a new name to an old idea.

Neuro-linguistic Programming is based on a model of communication and psychotherapy.

Non-gradable adjectives are adjectives that cannot be expressed in degrees and so cannot be graded.

Non-verbal communication is communication that does not involve a verbal element.