An ELT Glossary : Terms beginning with N and O


This section is constantly under development. New terms are being added all the time.
Narrative texts
Nasal consonants  
Nativism                  
Natural Order Hypothesis 
Needs analysis   
Negative particle 
Negotiation of meaning                     
Non-assertive meaning                              
Non-finite verbs
Norm referenced testing
Noticing                                            
Notional Syllabus            
Noun phrase
Nucleus / Tonic Syllable



Objective test
Open pairs
Open questions
Open vowels       
Operator    
Operator inversion   
Optative Mood                      
Other-repair  
Output hypothesis                             
Overgeneralisation