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