Teaching Knowledge database D-H

Ellipsis is the omission of one or more words from a sentence, where they are unnecessary because they have already been mentioned.

ELT refers to the activity and industry of teaching English to speakers of other languages.

Embedding refers to the process of inserting one sentence into another sentence.

Emoticons, a form of paralanguage, are symbols made up of characters available on a keyboard.

Empathy is the ability to imagine another person's thoughts, beliefs and feelings. In an ELT context, it normally refers to the ability to understand how a learner is feeling.

Empowerment refers to giving learners the power to make their own decisions about learning rather than the teacher having all the control.

There are many kinds of Englishes spoken around the world, both as a first and second language and the term 'Englishes' suggests this.

Errors are mistakes caused by a learner not knowing something.

English for Speakers of Other Languages, or ESOL, refers to learning English as a new resident in an English-speaking country.