1. TEFL & SLA Acronyms / Abbreviations Do you know them?

2. TOEFL ? Test of English as a Foreign Language

3. ZPD ? Zone of Proximal Development

4. ESP ? English for Special Purposes.

5. SLA ? Second Language Acquisition

6. LOTE ? Languages Other Than English

7. ELL ? English Language Learner

8. TBI ? Task Based Instruction

9. ELF ? English as a Lingua Franca

10. TSE ? Test of Spoken English

11. CELTA ? Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults

12. EAP ? English for Academic Purposes

13. ESD ? English as a Second Dialect

14. TYLE ? Teaching Young Learners English

15. B C ? British Council

16. IELTS ? International English Language Testing Service

17. s-v-o ? Subject – Verb – Object

18. LAD ? Language Acquisition Device

19. C C ? Communicative Competence

20. ESL ? English as a Second Language

21. K W L? Know Want to know What we Learned

22. L 1 ? First language Mother tongue

23. TOEIC ? Test of English for International Communication

24. CBI ? Content Based Instruction

25. UG ? Universal Grammar

26. NL / TL ? Native Language Target Language

27. IL ? Interlanguage

28. NS / NNS ? Native Speaker Non-Native Speaker

29. AF ? Affective Filter

30. TL ? Target Language

31. MLU ? Mean Length of Utterance

32. BSM ? Bilingual Syntax Measurement

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