To learn a language without studying it, just by hearing and/or reading and then using it. This is the way people usually learn their first language.
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You learn your first language as a
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Any pair or group of words commonly found together or near one another.
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We should make our students push their learning but not make it too
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When learners listen to or read language without being consciously aware of it.
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Paying attention to the words/parts of words that make a language structure or to spelling or pronunciation.
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An aim that a learner or teacher may have.
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If exposed to the language much the SS will have... level of skill
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Is ‘two-way communication’ between listener and speaker, or reader and text.
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To learn a foreign language you need not to... focus on form, but also pronunciation, spelling and grammar.
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A word in a piece of discourse or text, which is important for understanding the text.
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The way in which a text is organised and presented on a page. Certain texts have them specially for them, e.g. letters and newspaper articles.
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A learner makes it when trying to say something above their level of language or language processing.
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Learners can benefit from opportunities if they ... focus on form
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The use of connected speech at a natural speed with little hesitation, repetition or self-correction.
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To say or write something that has been read or heard using different words.
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Open-ended. A task or question that does not have a right or wrong answer, but which allows learners to offer their own opinions and ideas or to respond creatively.
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When learners do not have to produce language.
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The time when learners who are beginning to learn a first (or second) language prefer to listen (or read) before producing the language.
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Texts that have specific features, e.g. layout, use of language, that make them part of a recognisable type of text, e.g. letters, emails, news reports.
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Without motivation; having no motivation.
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A particular form of something in which some details are different from an earlier or later form of it, e.g. a written text may have different...
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When learners try to understand how and why a particular piece of language is used.
