Methodology and Didactics Glossary

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What is Accuracy in language learning?

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Producing language with few errors.

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Define Acquisition in the context of language learning.

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A term used to describe language being absorbed without conscious effort.

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What does Approach refer to in language teaching?

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A set of assumptions dealing with the nature of language, learning, and teaching.

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What is Brainstorming?

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A group activity where students freely contribute their ideas to a topic to generate ideas.

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What is Competence in language learning?

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The native speaker’s idealized knowledge of the abstract system of rules of the language.

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What is Drilling?

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Intensive and repetitive practice of the target language.

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What are Errors in language learning?

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Learner’s lack of proper grammatical knowledge, systematic and not recognized by the learners.

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What does Fluency mean?

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Natural, normal, native-like speech characterized by appropriate pauses, intonation, stress, and word choice.

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What is Input in language learning?

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The language to which the learner is exposed.

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Define Output in the context of language learning.

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The language a learner produces.