English Language Learning Terms

Hearing and understanding words

• Hearing

• Listening

• Speaking

• Reading

How good you are at something, like speaking English

• Expertise

• Proficiency

• Skill Level

• Competence

An activity to see how much you know

• Quiz

• Assessment

• Test

• Survey

Putting ideas into sentences on paper

• Writing

• Typing

• Drawing

• Reading

Improvement or getting better

• Progress

• Regression

• Stagnation

• Decline

Stands for New York State English As A Second Language Achievement Test.

• NYESLAT

• NYSESLAT

• NYSLEAT

• NYESLAT

Looking at words and sentences to understand

• Writing

• Reading

• Listening

• Speaking