GLOSSARYGLOSSARY

Andrea de Andrés

Raquel Rojas

Total Physical Response T.P.R

When children listen and follow teacher’s instructions, doing everything that the teacher says: the child must understand and memorize the

actions, responding only through movement and action. The difficulty of the input increases gradually. TPR can involve listening and doing actions

with a song or just responding to the teacher’s commands. There are 3 major phases:

-pre-teaching key words-Listen, watch and do

-Listen and do (jumple order)

ACQUISITION vs LEARNING

Lexical acquisition is involuntary, it is something uncontrollable and unconscious.

Primarily in infants and children but also adults. Children and especially babies hear sounds and through their senses

perceive an action occurs or a particular sequence of sounds are related to any object, then your brain stores these sounds or signs with action,

object, or idea of a bound form . Thus the vocabulary is formed.

Learning is the opposite of the acquisition. Occurs voluntarily and consciously. The individual looking to expand your vocabulary in a

controlled manner, recognizing the need to know the meaning of a word and seeks ways to know that information.

SILENT PERIOD

Silent period, an interval of time during which students feel unable to communicate orally in the foreign language.

Although children are much more motivated to express themselves and try new things, they can also feel embarrassment or shyness

and they might pass through a silent period.

MOTHER TONGUE

Your mother tongue is the language that you learn from your parents when you are a baby.

E.S.L. (English Second Language)

A traditional term for the use or study of the English language by non-native speakers in countries where English is generally not a local

medium of communication.

A traditional term for the use or study of the English language by non-native speakers in an English-speaking environment. That environment may be a country in which English is the mother

tongue (e.g., Australia, the U.S.) or one in which English has an established role (e.g., India, Nigeria).

E.F.L. (English Foreign Language)

DRILLS

Drilling is a technique that has been used in foreign language classrooms for many years. It was a key feature of audio lingual

approaches to language teaching which placed emphasis on repeating structural patterns through oral practice and the repetition

APPROACH

The approach is the way in which the teacher wants guiding their classes, depending on different points of view , according to how to

teach and what you want to work .

PHONICS

A method of teaching beginners to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system.

DIGITAL LITERACY

The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information.

Digital Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media, to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and

to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments.

LITERACY

The quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

The theory of multiple intelligences is a theory of intelligence that differentiates it into specific (primarily sensory) "modalities", rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general

ability.

The idea of multiple intelligences is important because it allows for educators to identify differing strengths and weaknesses in students and also contradicts the idea that intelligence can be

measured through IQ(intelligence quotient).

TARGET LANGUAGE

Target language is a language that someone is learning, or a language into which a text has to be

translated.