The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 8
Acquisition facilitator- A factor such as needing a good TOEIC for a promotion that will make it easier for a language school to separate a student and his or her money
Affordances- Student decisions on whether a teacher with an MA in Sociolinguistics is worth the extra cash or not
Applied Linguistics- from the Latin for “practical use of your tongue”
Classroom pigeon- The kind of lucky classroom distractions that teachers who have started an explanation of a language point they don’t know end up hoping will come and save them
CLT- Communicative Language Teaching- The idea that by communicating with your students you can avoid having to teach them
Cognitive code learning theory- The idea that writing textbooks with everything written in code, such as converting all the letters to numbers, was the best way of stimulating students’ logical-mathematical learning style
Coherence- The part of a teacher’s classroom language that gets worse as their grading and speaking speed get better
Cohesion- The tendency of students to get attached to teachers and complain if the teacher changes, even when they know they are learning nothing in his or her classes
Comprehensible input- Teachers making their classroom language understandable by only using terms from the BASIC programming language
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