Teaching Knowledge database A-C

Countable nouns are nouns that can be preceded by a number and that have singular and plural forms.

A criterion-referenced test measures a candidate's mark against a series of criteria and produces a description of level based on that criterion.

The critical period hypothesis says that there is a period of growth in which full native competence is possible when acquiring a language. This period is from early childhood to adolescence.

Cued Articulation [CA] was devised by Speech and Language Therapist Jane Passy in the late 1970s. It is an original system which uses simple hand cues to show where and how speech sounds are made.

A curriculum is a set of subjects for an educational institution, or a set of subjects within a course.

Cuisenaire rods are small wooden rods of different lengths and colours.