1.1 Terminology
During the course and your teaching career, you will come across some of the terms listed below. You can always come back to this unit if you get confused.
TEFL – Teaching English as a Foreign Language
TESL – Teaching English as a Second Language
TESOL – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
EFL – English as a Foreign Language
ESL – English as a Second Language
CELTA – Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults.
CELTYL – Certificate in English Language Teaching to Young Learners
L1- First language/mother-tongue language
L2- A term used to refer to both second and foreign languages
TTT – Teacher Talk Time
STT- Student Talk Time
TPR – Total Physical Response
PPP or the 3P’s – Presentation, Practice, Production. A variation of the 4P’s, a method for lesson planning
PPPP or the 4P’s – Preparation, Presentation, Practice, Production. a variation to the 3P’s, method of lesson planning
ESP- English for Specific Purposes, e.g., law, medicine, business
EAP – English for Academic Purposes; preparation for learners who are entering English secondary and post-secondary schools
SLA – This is an abbreviation for Second Language Acquisition and is typically used to refer to theory and research linked to second and foreign language education
VAK – Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic – the three types of learning styles
MI – Gardners Multiple Intelligence Theory
DM – Direct Method- one of the teaching methods in ESL/EFL
ALM – Audio Lingual Method- one of the teaching methods in ESL/EFL
Pedagogy- the art, science, or profession of teaching; especially: education
Warmer – a short, fun activity that brings energy into the classroom and usually precedes a lesson
Intonation – variations of the pitch when talking can, for example, convey emotion or attitude, signal the contrast between statements and questions, and emphasize significant phrases or words