Teaching Knowledge database A-C

Aims are what teachers (and learners) want to achieve in a lesson or a course.

Allomorphs are different forms of the same morpheme, or basic unit of meaning.

Allophones are phonetic variations - different pronunciations - of the same phoneme

Alveolar consonants are consonant sounds that are produced with the tongue close to or touching the ridge behind the teeth on the roof of the mouth.

Anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning.

Anchoring is a technique used to manage emotional states in Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

An antonym is a word which means the opposite to another word.

Applied linguistics is a field of study that looks at how linguistics can help understand real-life problems in areas such as psychology, sociology and education.

An approach is a way of looking at teaching and learning.