Teaching Knowledge database I-M

The lexical approach is a way of analysing and teaching language based on the idea that it is made up of lexical units rather than grammatical structures.

A lexical chunk is a group of words that are commonly found together.

A lexical set is a group of words with the same topic, function or form.

A lexicon is often used to describe the knowledge that a speaker has about the words of a language.

A lingua franca is a language that is used widely outside the country where it is spoken as a native language.

Linguistic intelligence - also known as verbal-linguistic - is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory.

Linking is when sounds are joined together or when a sound is inserted between two others to make them easier to say.

Logical/mathematical intelligence is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory.

Long vowels are vowel sounds that are longer than normal, or short, vowels.