ELF Glossary

A task which involves learners in using language in a way that replicates its use in the ‘real world’ outside the language classroom.

• Discovery activity

• Language practice

• Authentic task

• Language use

an approach in which students

acquire a second or foreign language whilst focusing on learning new content knowledge and skills

• Communicative competence

• Communicative approaches

• Lexical approaches

• CLIL

A bank of authentic texts collected in order to find out how language is actually used.

• Corpus

• Concordances

• Language data

• Lexical chunks

Referring to ways of learning language through experiencing it in use rather than through focusing conscious attention on language items.

• ELF

• Experiential learning

• Foreign language

• Language data

Anything which is used to help language learners to learn.

• Materials adaptation

• Materials evaluation

• Multimedia materials

• Materials

These are approaches which focus on the use of vocabulary

on the choices available to users of English when wanting to communicate particular meanings in particular contexts for particular purposes.

• Task-based approaches

• Text-based approaches

• PPP

• Lexical approaches

Activities which involve repetition of the same language point or skill in an environment which is controlled by the framework of the activity

• Language use

• Language practice

• Language data

• Language awareness

Approaches to teaching language which emphasise the value of helping learners to focus attention on features of language in use

• Lexical approaches

• Task-based approaches

• Communicative approaches

• Language awareness approaches

A list of authentic samples of language use each containing the same key word or phrase

• Concordances

• Discovery activity

• Language data

• PPP

Any extended sample of a language presented to learners of that language.

• Workbook

• World English

• Text

• Supplementary materials