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Exposure refers to the contact that the learner has with the language that they are trying to learn, either generally or with specific language points.

Extended speaking is a type of speaking activity that involves learners speaking for longer periods of time and in a freer form than controlled speaking practice.

An extension task is further activity around the aims of a class but after it, often as homework.

Extensive reading involves learners reading texts for enjoyment and to develop general reading skills.

Extrinsic motivation is a motivation to learn caused by external pressures such as work, because a parent has sent a learner to class, or the need to gain a qualification in the language.

If a test has face validity then it looks like a valid test to those who use it.

Facilitation is a term used to describe a possible role of the teacher.

False friends are words that look or sound the same as words in the learner’s first language but in fact are not so, causing the learner to make a mistake.

Feedback is information a teacher or another speaker, including another learner, gives to learners on how well they are doing, either to help the learner improve specific points, or to help plan their learning.

In the field-dependent/independent model of cognitive or learning style, a field-dependent learning style is defined by a relative inability to distinguish detail from other information around it.