User:Gotanda/Working ELT Acronym List
As a first step towards working up some really good pages on ELT etc. Here is a working list of acronyms and definitions. Eventually these will all need pages.
- ABC: Definition
- BULATS: Business Language Testing Service
- CALL: Computer-Assisted Language Learning
- CALLA Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach
- CBI: Content-based Instruction
- CBL: Challenge Based Learning
- CEFR: Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- CELTA: Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults
- CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning
- CLL: Community Language Learning
- CLT: Communicative Language Teaching
- DEAR: Drop Everything and Read
- DELTA: Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults
- EAL: English as an Additional Language
- EAP: English for Academic Purposes
- EFL: English as a Foreign Language
- ELF: English as a Lingua Franca
- ELL: English Language Learner
- ELT: English Language Teaching
- ER: Extensive Reading
- ESOL: English for Speakers of Other Languages
- ESP: English for Special Purposes
- FLL: Foreign Language Learning
- FLT: Foreign Language Teaching
- IELTS: International English Language Testing System
- ILR: Interagency Language Roundtable scale
- L1: First language, native language, mother tongue
- L2: Second language
- LEP: Limited English Proficiency
- LLL: Life-Long Learning
- LOTE: Languages Other Than English
- MFL: Modern Foreign Languages
- NEST: Native English Speaking Teacher
- NNEST: Non-native English Speaking Teacher
- PARSNIPS: A list of taboo topics in ELT; Politics, Alcohol, Religion, Sex, Narcotics, Isms, and Pork
- PPP: Presentation, practice, production
- SIG: Special Interest Group
- SLA: Second Language Acquisition
- TBL: Task-Based Learning
- TBLT: Task-Based Learning and Teaching
- TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language
- TENOR: Teaching English for No Obvious Reason
- TESL: Teaching English as a Second Language
- TESOL: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- TOEIC: Test of English for International Communication
- TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language
- TOEIC: Test of English for International Communication
- TPR: Total Physical Response
- XYZ: Definition