ENG503 Glossary by Asfand Yarr

1. Accuracy :The quality or state of being correct or precise
2. Acquisition :The learning or developing of a skill, habit, or quality
3. Analogy :A comparison of one thing with another thing that has similar

features.

4. Anxiety :The state of feeling nervous or worried that something bad is going

to happen.

5. Approach :A way of dealing with something: a way of doing or thinking

about something.

6. Assessment :The act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or

importance of something, or the judgment or decision that is made.

7. Assumption :A belief or feeling that something is true or that something will

happen, although there is no proof.

8. Bilingualism :The use of at least two languages by an individual.
9. Borrowing :A word, a phrase or an idea that somebody has taken from

another language.

10. Coherence :The situation in which all the parts of something fit

together well.

11. Cohesion :The grammatical and lexical linking within a text or

sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning.

12. Colonialism :It is the practice by which a powerful country directly

controls less powerful countries and uses their resources to increase its own

power and wealth.

13. Competence :The ability to do something well.

14. Concordances :An alphabetical index of the principal words in a book

or the works of an author with their immediate contexts. 15. Consonants :A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly

obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable.

16. Constituents :A component part of something

17. Corpora :A large or complete collection of writings

18. Criticism :The act of expressing disapproval of somebody/something

and opinions about their faults or bad qualities; a statement showing

disapproval.

19. Culture :The ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people

or society.

20. Curriculum :The subjects that are included in a course of study or

taught in a school, college, etc.

21. Deductive :Deductive reasoning is a logical process in which a

conclusion drawn from a set of premises contains no more information than

the premises taken collectively.

22. Descriptive :It defines how language is actually used, without giving

rules for how it should be used.

23. Dialect :The form of a language that is spoken in one area with

grammar, words and pronunciation that may be different from other forms of

the same language.

24. Diglossia :A situation in which two languages or two forms of a

language are used under different conditions in a community.

25. Diphthong :A sound in which one vowel sound glides towards another.

26. Discourse :Formal and orderly and usually extended expression of

thought on a subject. Mode of organizing knowledge, ideas, or experience that

is rooted in language and its concrete contexts (such as history or institutions) 27. Diversity :The condition of having or being composed of differing

elements: variety; especially: the inclusion of different types of people (such

as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization.

28. Drilling :It is a classroom technique used to practise new language. It

involves the teacher modelling a word or a sentence and the learners repeating

it.

29. Eliciting :It describes a range of techniques which enable the teacher

to get learners to provide information rather than giving it to them.

30. Evaluation :The act of forming an opinion of the amount, value or

quality of something after thinking about it carefully.

31. Extensive :Having wide or considerable extent

32. Fluency :The quality or condition of being fluent

33. Historical Linguistics :Historical linguistics, also called diachronic

linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. It is to

reconstruct the pre-history of languages and to determine their relatedness,

grouping them into language families.

34. Identity :It is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or

expressions that make a person (self-identity) or group (particular social

category or social group).

35. Ideology :A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the

basis of economic or political theory and policy. An ideology is a set of

opinions or beliefs of a group or an individual.

36. Idiolect :The way that a particular person uses language.

37. Implications :A possible effect or result of an action or a decision.