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- 03:44, 1 April 2020 Data security (hist) [599 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Data security''' means protecting digital data, such as those in a database, from destructive forces and from the unwanted actions of unauthorized users, such as a...")
- 14:28, 31 March 2020 @ (hist) [155 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''@''' or '''at sign''' is a symbol, derived from the letter A. It's commonly used in email addresses, and accounting. category:symbols")
- 14:09, 31 March 2020 Pound sign (hist) [128 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Pound sign''' may refer to: * £ * hash sign (#) {{disambig}}")
- 07:33, 27 March 2020 Fortunately, unfortunately (hist) [892 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Fortunately, unfortunately''' is a parlour game. Each player adds a sentence, with odd-numbered players adding "unfortunately, + sentence", and even-numbered players "...")
- 07:29, 27 March 2020 Yes, no, black, white (hist) [327 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Yes, no, black, white''' is a parlour game in which the players lose if they say any of the words "yes", "no", "black" or "white". The aim is to get the other player(s...")
- 07:23, 27 March 2020 The Minister's Cat (hist) [570 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Minister's Cat''' is a form of the memory chain parlour game that can be used with adjectives. Players take it in turns to describe the cat using adjecti...")
- 12:15, 26 March 2020 Medical examination (hist) [515 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''medical examination''' is when a medical practitioner examines a patient for any possible medical signs or symptoms of a medical condition.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w...")
- 14:27, 24 March 2020 G factor (hist) [201 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:g factor}} '''g factor''' is a construct developed in psychometric investigations of cognitive abilities and human intelligence related to...")
- 13:41, 24 March 2020 Adaptive test (hist) [710 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''adaptive test''' is a test in which the quality of answers to early questions determine the difficulty of questions selected later in the test. It is typical of l...")
- 09:31, 24 March 2020 Our context (hist) [251 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Our context''' is the teaching of English as a second language, and associated testing. * Teaching English to immigrants into English-speaking countries *...")
- 09:27, 24 March 2020 Comprehension test (hist) [425 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''comprehension test''' is a test with a focus on comprehension. Generally, in our context we're interested in: reading comprehension tests and listening...")
- 09:05, 24 March 2020 Exclusive or (hist) [478 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Exclusive or''' is the use of the English co-ordinating conjunction "or" to refer to things that are exclusive. For example, to the question: *Would you like...")
- 07:29, 24 March 2020 Inclusive or (hist) [398 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Inclusive or''' is the use of the English coordinating conjunction "or" to refer to possible things. For example, if we ask the question * "Do you play footba...")
- 06:17, 24 March 2020 Quantitative psychology (hist) [157 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Quantitative psychology''' is a subfield of psychology. The difference between this an psychometrics is... any idea? category:psychology")
- 05:55, 24 March 2020 Teaching aptitude (hist) [349 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Teaching aptitude''' is aptitude to teaching. TEFL primarily involves teaching people, so "people skills" are important, and for most jobs more important than...")
- 04:18, 24 March 2020 Hidden do (hist) [924 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Hidden do''' is a feature of the syntax of English that means the auxiliary do can be, and usually is, "hidden" in certain sentence forms. For example the sent...")
- 04:04, 24 March 2020 Or (hist) [201 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Or''' (/ɔ:(r)/) is an English coordinating conjunction. Or has two meanings, distinguished in formal logic as exclusive or and inclusive or. category...")
- 15:55, 23 March 2020 Participial modifier (hist) [180 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''participial modifier''' is a modifier. As a term this covers participial adjectives and participial adverbs. category:modifiers")
- 15:52, 23 March 2020 Regular adverb (hist) [355 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''regular adverb''' is an adverb that is regular. In English, regular adverbs are formed by inflecting the suffix -ly on an adjective, albeit with a mi...")
- 10:12, 23 March 2020 Visual impairment (hist) [549 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Visual impairment''' is a sensory impairment of vision.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_impairment</ref> Minor visual impairments can be fixed with glasse...")
- 09:51, 23 March 2020 Essay mill (hist) [505 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''essay mill''' is a service business that offers essay writing of academic essays to clients. Those clients are typically university students, and the ostens...")
- 07:46, 23 March 2020 Copyediting (hist) [303 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Copyediting''' or '''copy editing''' is the process of revising written texts to improve readability and fitness for purpose, and ensuring textual coheren...")
- 05:32, 23 March 2020 Sensory impairment (hist) [270 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''sensory impairment''' is an impairment of a physical sense. Mainly in our context, we're interested in hearing impairment and sight impairment. catego...")
- 05:24, 23 March 2020 Hearing impairment (hist) [1,027 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''hearing impairment''' is a sensory impairment affecting hearing.<ref>The term '''hearing loss''' is also used though that has a different meaning, i.e. the declin...")
- 04:01, 23 March 2020 A Student's Grammar of the English Language (hist) [408 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''''A Student's Grammar of the English Language''''' is a 1990 grammar book by Randolph Quirk and Sidney Greenbaum that is a shortened, more accessible version of...")
- 13:53, 22 March 2020 Societal attitudes towards education (hist) [211 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Societal attitudes towards education''' consist of societal attitudes towards education. These vary between, and within, societies. category:societal attitude...")
- 10:39, 22 March 2020 Societal attitudes towards teachers (hist) [242 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Societal attitudes towards teachers''' are societal attitudes towards teachers and the teaching profession. Some societies are very respectful towards teachers, wh...")
- 10:25, 22 March 2020 John Austin (hist) [339 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''John Austin''' (1911 – 1960) was a British philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, perhaps best known for developing the theory of...") originally created as "J.L. Austin"
- 10:10, 22 March 2020 Societal attitudes towards English (hist) [397 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Societal attitudes towards English''' are societal attitudes towards English and the role of English. Some societies have positive attitudes towards [[English]...")
- 07:17, 22 March 2020 Societal attitudes towards language learning (hist) [387 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Societal attitudes towards language learning''' vary between societies and cultures. Language learning is valued in some societies, such as Dutch, wher...")
- 06:43, 22 March 2020 Societal attitudes (hist) [430 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Societal attitudes''' are how society sees things. These vary between societies, and even within a society there will be differences. Particularly important in our...")
- 05:03, 22 March 2020 Language learning experience (hist) [605 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Language learning experience''' is experience of language learning. This can be important for language learners as well as language teachers. category...")
- 16:01, 21 March 2020 Because (hist) [372 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Because''' is an English subordinating conjunction used to express causation.<re>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/because</ref> It may be shortened to 'cause or...")
- 12:55, 21 March 2020 Near-homophone (hist) [145 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''near-homophone''' is a phrase (which may be a single-word phrase) that sounds similar but slightly different to a second phrase.")
- 12:34, 21 March 2020 Textbook (hist) [409 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''textbook''' (/ˈtekstˌbʊk/) is a non-fiction book belonging to a genre that has a focus on teaching and describing a particular academic field. Tex...")
- 10:52, 21 March 2020 If (hist) [1,204 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''If''' (/ɪf/) is an English subordinating conjunction.<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if</ref> If is used to form if clauses, which are a type of conditi...")
- 14:19, 20 March 2020 Irregular demonym (hist) [1,350 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Irregular demonyms == There are some irregular demonyms in English however, mostly relating to countries and territories in Europe. Some of these have separate masc...")
- 13:19, 20 March 2020 Teaching experience (hist) [60 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Teaching experience''' is experience of teaching.")
- 10:49, 20 March 2020 Α-value (hist) [367 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''α-value''' or '''alpha value''' is an arbitrary cut-off used in statistical hypothesis testing to decide whether to reject or not to reject the null hypothesis...")
- 10:12, 20 March 2020 Opportunity cost (hist) [263 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Opportunity cost''' is the cost incurred by not obtaining the benefit associated with an alternative choice.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost</ref> There...")
- 10:03, 20 March 2020 Trinity College London (hist) [267 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Trinity College London''' (TCL) is an exam board based in London. It offers examinations in English proficiency, and also qualifications in teaching English as a f...")
- 07:36, 20 March 2020 Perspective shift (hist) [473 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Perspective shift''' occurs in reported speech.<ref>(this may be technically known under a different name, but it's a real thing, see the main text</ref> * Anna (to Bo...")
- 06:52, 20 March 2020 Computer (hist) [323 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''computer''' is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.<ref>https://en.wiki...")
- 05:33, 20 March 2020 Overassessment (hist) [114 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Overassessment''' or '''over-assessment''' occurs when a test gives a score that is unjustifiably too high.")
- 04:55, 20 March 2020 Versant (hist) [544 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Versant''' is a proprietary fully-computerised test of language proficiency for second language speakers produced by Pearson.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...")
- 04:45, 20 March 2020 Stabilised error (hist) [271 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''stabilised error''' or '''stabilized error''' (American spelling) is an error that has been stabilised. Some prefer this term to fossilised error, maintaining th...")
- 04:36, 20 March 2020 Conversational repair (hist) [228 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Conversational repair''' is when a conversation breakdown is repaired. Speakers adopt repair strategies in order to do this.<ref>https://www.thoughtco.com/repair-s...") originally created as "Conversation repair"
- 03:05, 20 March 2020 Degree of regularity (hist) [449 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Degree of regularity''' or simply '''regularity''' when used in an non-count sense, is the degree to which a language item is regular. Regularity is a spectrum prese...")
- 16:07, 19 March 2020 Bad language learner (hist) [337 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''bad language learner''' is a language learner who struggles to acquire or learn a language (e.g. English).<ref>https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/2011/0...")
- 14:38, 19 March 2020 Metonym (hist) [137 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''metonym''' is a [definition]<ref> https://www.thoughtco.com/metonym-figure-of-speech-1691387</ref> == References == <references/>")
