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The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 10

Posted on 12/06/2008 by alexcase

BIELT- The British Institute of English Language Teaching, set up with the goals of establishing a framework of professional qualifications and a professional code of practice. It failed. BULATS- EFL testing euphemism for “bollocks” Cloze-

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The Alternative ELT JargonDictionary Part Nine

Posted on 10/06/2008 by alexcase

Consciousness-raising – Using obscure grammar questions as a path to enlightenment, similar to the Zen Buddhist use of koan such as “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” Content-based approaches- Doing anything that keeps your students happy Corpora- Dead … Continue reading →

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The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 8

Posted on 09/06/2008 by alexcase

Acquisition facilitator- A factor such as needing a good TOEIC for a promotion that will make it easier for a language school to separate a student and his or her money Affordances- Student decisions on whether a teacher with an … Continue reading →

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The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 7

Posted on 06/06/2008 by alexcase

Community Language Learning– The theory that students getting together at break time to bitch about British food and their teacher is the best way of drawing them together and increasing their motivation to learn DoS– Director of Studies. Often confused … Continue reading →

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English for Very Specific Purposes (EVSP)

Posted on 27/04/2008 by alexcase

Having found out from the book “English for Specific Purposes” by Keith Harding that ESP has spawned a whole raft of lovely acronyms such as EAP, EBP, EMP, EOP, EPP, EST, EVP* and also the disparaging one for General English … Continue reading →

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The Alternative TEFL jargon dictionary Part Six

Posted on 30/09/2007 by alexcase

After rather a long break, the Alternative TEFL Jargon Dictionary is back! Defective modals– This somewhat negative expression for modals that do not have a seperate past or future form (e.g. must) is now being replaced by the expression “modal … Continue reading →

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The Alternative ELT jargon dictionary Part Four

Posted on 25/07/2007 by alexcase

agreement– Verbs matching their pronouns, e.g. third person -s. If students make mistakes with this you can prompt them using this technical term, e.g. Student “My sister she get up at six and thirty” Teacher “Agreement” S “Sorry?” T “Your … Continue reading →

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Alternative ELT dictionary Part Three

Posted on 25/07/2007 by alexcase

Two new words, courtesy of Katie at TEFLogue: Trinity-kins- Teachers fresh off the Trinity Certificate, with a innocent, childlike enthusiasm still in their eyes CELToids- a new generation of impeccably-trained CELTA-trained pre-teaching machines ready to take over the world Definitions are … Continue reading →

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The Alternative English teaching jargon dictionary Part Two

Posted on 24/07/2007 by alexcase

aptitude- your inbuilt ‘talent’ for learning languages. Not to be confused with ‘apitude’, which is your ability to make a realistic bee -like buzzing noise with your mouth. ARC- (Authentic, Restricted, Clarification). This more-flexible variation on PPP is thought by … Continue reading →

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The Alternative EFL Jargon Dictionary Part One

Posted on 12/07/2007 by alexcase

accuracy– Not making mistakes in a foreign language. A student who is obsessed about having every mistake corrected, usually Swiss, is called an accurist advanced learner– a proficient user of a foreign language. One who can correct their teacher once or … Continue reading →

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