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Read articles written by expert teachers and English language professionals about a wide range of current English language teaching topics and issues. All of our articles feature ideas and suggestions about how you can develop your teaching and bring new ideas into your English language classroom.
Achievement test
An achievement test evaluates a learner’s understanding of a specific course or study programme.
Acquisition
Acquisition is the way we learn our first language, i.e. through being involved in real communication, and without formal teaching.
Action research
Action research is a development tool for a teacher that involves observing or gathering other data about a class through interviews, case studies, and questionnaires.
Adverbial clause
An adverbial clause tells us more about a main clause, in the same way as an adverb tells us more about a verb.
Affective factors
Affective factors are emotional factors which influence learning. They can have a negative or positive effect.
Affective strategies
Affective strategies are learning strategies concerned with managing emotions, both negative and positive.
Affixes
Affixes are groups of letters that are added to the beginning or the end of words to make new words.
Affricate
Affricates are consonant sounds made up of a stop, like /t/, immediately followed by a fricative, like /s/.
Aims
Aims are what teachers (and learners) want to achieve in a lesson or a course.
Allomorph
Allomorphs are different forms of the same morpheme, or basic unit of meaning.