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Content validity
If a test has content validity then it has been shown to test what it sets out to test.
Content words
Content words are words that have meaning. They can be compared to grammatical words, which are structural.
Contextualisation
Contextualisation is putting language items into a meaningful and real context rather than being treated as isolated items of language for language manipulation practice only.
Continuous assessment
Continuous assessment means assessing aspects of learners’ language throughout their course and then producing a final evaluation result from these assessments.
Controlled language
Controlled language is language that the teacher gives the class that is in some way changed to suit the level or the aims of the lesson.
Controlled practice
Controlled practice is a stage in a lesson where learners practise new language in a limited form.
Correction code
A correction code is used to show learners what kind of mistakes they have made in written work.
Counselling
Counselling is a teacher talking with a learner about their learning and advising them.
Countable
Countable nouns are nouns that can be preceded by a number and that have singular and plural forms.
Criterion-referenced test
A criterion-referenced test measures a candidate’s mark against a series of criteria and produces a description of level based on that criterion.