Teaching Knowledge database A-C

A cloze is a practice exercise where learners have to replace words missing from a text.

Working in closed pairs means that the learners are all working in pairs simultaneously and therefore privately.

Cognates are words in English and the learner's language that are similar and have similar meaning.

Cognitive overload is a situation where the teacher gives too much information or too many tasks to learners simultaneously, resulting in the learner being unable to process this information.

Cognitive strategies are one type of learning strategy that learners use in order to learn more successfully.

Cognitive style refers to the way a person thinks and processes information.

A cognitive theory of learning sees second language acquisition as a conscious and reasoned thinking process, involving the deliberate use of learning strategies.

The cognitive-code approach of the 1970s emphasised that language learning involved active mental processes, that it was not just a process of habit formation (the assumption underlying the audiolingual method that came before it).

Coherence is one of the two qualities that give a written or spoken text unity and purpose.