An ELT Glossary : Terms beginning with C

This section is constantly under development. New terms are being added all the time.

                    
Caretaker speech   
Cataphoric reference
Catenation   
Catenative verbs               
Causative verbs
CCQs                       
Centre vowels  
Chain drills                       
Circumlocution strategies             
Citation form
Clause / Clause elements 
Cleft sentence
Clipping                       
Closed pairs
Closed Questions
Close vowels
Cloze tests                 
Code switching
Cognate/False cognate
Coherence
Cohesion
Cohort
Collective nouns
Colligation
Collocation        
Comma splice                                  
Communication strategies
Communicative competence             
Competence                            
Complement
Complementary antonyms
Complex preposition
Complex sentence                 
Compound sentence
Compound-complex sentence
Compound words
Concept
Concept checking /Concept questions
Concession
Concordance
Concordancers                         
Concrete noun                                                  
Conjunct     
Conjunction
Connective
Connected speech
Connotation
Consonant sounds
Consonant cluster                 
Construct validity
Content schemata
Content validity
Continuant sounds 
Continuous aspect         
Contractions     
Contrast
Contrastive Analysis
Contrastive stress
Controlled practice
Conversation Frames
Converse antonyms  
Coping strategies                      
Copula
Copulative verbs
Co-ordinating Conjunctions
Co-ordination
Corpus/Corpora
Correlatives
Countable nouns
Coverage
Cranberry morphemes
Criterion referenced testing
Critical period hypothesis