An ELT Notebook

A collection of articles on EFL methodology for teachers at all levels of experience.

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Featured Articles
List of Contents - Articles
An ELT Glossary - Index
Doing the Delta?
Language Matters - Index

An ELT Glossary : Terms connected with language skills

Authentic texts/materials
Backchannel language
Bottom up processing
Circumlocution strategies
Coherence
Cohesion
Communication strategies

Communicative competence
Connected speech
Coping strategies
Expository texts
Extensive reading
Field of discourse
Fluency activities

Gambit
Genre approach to writing
Gist reading

Head (conversational analysis)
Inference
Integrated skills activities
Intensive reading
Interactional discourse
Jigsaw listening and reading activities
Language Skills
Lexically enhanced texts
Long turns
Mode of discourse
Narrative texts
Other-repair
Persuasive texts
Phatic communication
Preferred second
Pre-listening and Pre-reading Activities
Pre-sequences
Procedural texts
Process-based approaches
Process writing
Product Writing
Product-based approaches
Productive/receptive skills
Reading for detail
Reading strategies
Receptive /Productive skills
Repair strategies
Scanning
Self-repair
Short turns
Skills
Skimming
Tail (conversational analysis)
Tenor of discourse
Text types (1)
Text types (2)
Top down processing
Transactional discourse
Turn taking
Utterance

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The articles and illustrations found on this blog are copyright to their authors, and have been acquired legally. All articles are copyright Sue Swift unless another author is specifically stated. Where photos are made available under Creative Commons License, this and the photographer's name is stated. You are welcome to use any of the activities which we describe with your classes - but please send us a comment to say how it went. You may also refer to us in anything you write - for example in another blog or an assignment on a teacher training course. But please acknowledge us - don't steal our ideas.

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