Teaching Knowledge database A-C

Cohesion is one of the two qualities that give a written or spoken text unity and purpose, the other being coherence.

Collaborative activity involves learners working together in order to complete a task.

Collocation refers to words that are found together in language.

The communicative approach is based on the idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning.

Communicative competence refers to a learner's ability to use language to communicate successfully.

Community-building software allows users to create and maintain an online community.

Compensation strategies are communication strategies used by learners to compensate for limitations in their language.

A compound word is made up of other words.

Comprehensible input is language input that can be understood by listeners despite them not understanding all the words and structures in it.