Teaching Knowledge database A-C

Autonomy means the ability to take control of one's own learning, independently or in collaboration with others.

Auxiliary verbs are added to main verbs to make them work in other forms, such as questions, negatives, and other times.

Awareness-raising activities aim to make learners more aware of language and so improve their understanding, but do not involve learners in using the language themselves.

Backchaining is a drilling technique intended to help learners pronounce difficult sound groups, words or phrases.

Blending is one of the many ways new words are made in English.

A blog, or weblog, is a website which functions as a diary or personal journal.

Bodily/kinaesthetic intelligence is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory.

Bottom-up processing happens when someone tries to understand language by looking at individual meanings or grammatical characteristics of the most basic units of the text, (e.g. sounds for a listening or words for a reading), and moves from these to trying to understand the whole text.

Brainstorming is the random generation of ideas based around a topic.