Teaching Knowledge database I-M

Ice-breakers are speaking activities used with a new class in order to give the learners an opportunity to meet each other.

Information and Communication Technology, or ICT, refers to technological tools that are used to communicate and to manage information.

Idioms are expressions whose meanings are different from the words that make them.

In immersion programmes learners are fully immersed in the target language for a certain period of time, both in and outside the class.

An inductive approach to teaching language starts with examples and asks learners to find rules.

Inference is the technique of finding answers from clues and from prior knowledge rather than directly.

Informal assessment involves observing the learners as they learn and evaluating them from the data gathered.

An information gap activity is an activity where learners are missing the information they need to complete a task and need to talk to each other to find it.

Initiation-response-feedback, or IRF, is a pattern of discussion between the teacher and learner.