TESOL Certificate Study Guide

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9 Types of Verbs

Academic Word List

Affixes

Albert Mehrabian 7-38-55% Rule

Allophone

American Culture and Values

Andragogy Knowles Theory

Audio-Lingual Method of Teaching

Authentic Task

Behaviorist Model B.F. Skinner

Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking Skills

Bottom-up Reading For Beginners

Brainstorming

Chronemics

Circumlocution

Cloze Procedure

Communicative Language Teaching

Cognate

Consonant Blends

Consonants

Conditional Sentence

Context Clues

Conventions One of the Six Traits of Writing

Deductive Learning Deductive Reasoning

Devoicing

Diagnostic Assessment

Diphthong

Elicitation

False Cognates

Five Language Domains

Flapping

Focused Vs Diffused Mode

Foreigner Talk

Formative Assessment

Fossilization

Free-Writing

Glasser’s Five Needs and Choice Theory

Hesitation Markers

High-Frequency Words

Homophone

Inductive Learning

Informal Assessment

Input Hypothesis and Krashen’s Theory of Second Language Acquisition

International Phonetic Alphabet

L1

L2

Language Experience Approach

Language Learning Outside The Classroom

Language Learning Strategies

Lev Vygotsky and the Zone of Proximal Development

Listening Skills

Minimal Pairs

Modes of Learning Acquisition Vs Learning

Norm-referenced Assessment

Pedagogy

Performance Assessment

Phonology

Pidginization

Productive Skills Speaking and Writing

Realia

Receptive Skills Reading and Listening

Scaffolding

Six Traits of Writing

Spaced Repetition and the Leitner System

Stephen Krashen Comprehensible Input

Stephen Krashen Monitor Model

Stephen Krashen Input Hypothesis

Standardized Assessment

Summative Assessment

Three Stages of Writing

Teacher Talk

Total Physical Response

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