TEFL Glossary

Paralinguistics (or paralinguistic features) are aspects of communication in addition to words. These features are: tone and pitch of voice, gestures, facial expressions and body language. Paralinguistics often serve to convey emphasis or attitude. 

Participle adjectives are special words in English formed from verbs and used to describe nouns.  They come in two types: present participles (ending in ‘-ing’) and past participles (ending in ‘-ed’, ‘-en’, ‘-d’, ‘-t’, or irregular forms).

A category of words based on their function in a sentence (e.g., noun, verb, adjective).

Passive forms are clauses in which the recipient of an action is the grammatical subject (e.g. He was attacked). Passive forms are formed by using verb to be as an auxiliary, and putting the main verb in the past participle form. S+BE+past participle.

A grammatical construction where the subject of the sentence is acted upon by the verb (e.g., The book was read by Mary).

A method where students teach each other, enhancing their understanding through interaction.

Pelmanism was a system of brain training but is basically matching paired cards after turning only two over at a time.

Preliminary English Test -  a Cambridge English examination for students at B1 level.

A phoneme in a language is the unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another, for example, /t/ and /d/.