tefl & sla acronyms / abbreviations do you know them?
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TEFL & SLA
Acronyms / Abbreviations
Do you know them?
TOEFL ?Test of English
as a Foreign Language
ZPD ?Zone of Proximal
Development
ESP ?English for Special
Purposes.
SLA ?Second
Language Acquisition
LOTE ?Languages Other
Than English
ELL ?English Language
Learner
TBI ?Task Based Instruction
ELF ?English as a
Lingua Franca
TSE ?
Test of Spoken English
CELTA ?Certificate of
English Language Teaching to Adults
EAP ?English for Academic
Purposes
ESD ?English as a Second
Dialect
TYLE ?Teaching Young Learners English
B C ?
British Council
IELTS ?International
English Language Testing Service
s-v-o ?Subject – Verb –
Object
LAD ?Language
Acquisition Device
C C ?Communicative
Competence
ESL ?English as a Second
Language
K W L?Know
Want to know
What we Learned
L 1 ?First language
Mother tongue
TOEIC ?Test of English for
International Communication
CBI ?Content Based
Instruction
UG ?Universal Grammar
NL / TL ?Native Language
Target Language
IL ?
Interlanguage
NS / NNS ?Native Speaker
Non-Native Speaker
AF ?Affective
Filter
TL ?Target
Language
MLU ?Mean Length
of Utterance
BSM ?
Bilingual Syntax
Measurement
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