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intensive reading

See intensive.


interaction

This refers to who is talking to whom during the lesson, e.g., T-class, st-st, etc.

Lesson plans usually include a column in which planned interactions are recorded.



Interactionist and Developmental Theory

According to this theory of language acquisition, children learn language because they naturally want to communicate. Language therefore emerges from social interaction. As children's language ability develops though communication, it will be strongly affected by their environment.


interactive listening

Interactive listening requires the listener to respond - conversation. Listening which does not require a response (e.g., listening to the radio) is non-interactive. Arguably all listening is in some way interactive because even if you do not need to make a response, there will be some kind of emotional or intellectual response to what you hear.


interdental

It is a sound formed by putting the tongue between the teeth (/θ/ and /ð/).


interjection

An interjection is some kind of exclamation or hesitation word or noise (Oh! Ugh, er...) that tells us something about the speaker's attitude towards what he or she is saying (e.g., pleasure, disgust, uncertainty, etc.).


International English Language Testing System

See IELTS.


interrogative adjectives

See interrogative determiners.


interrogative determiners

They are also called interrogative adjectives (e.g., whose, what, which). 


interrogative forms

Question forms are grammatical forms used for asking questions.  E.g.: The interrogative/question form for past simple is S+did+verb (infinitive): Did you make a pie?



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