Key Concepts from ELT J

The section called Key Concepts in the ELT Journal has quite short articles on a wide range of language acquisition concepts.

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Learner training (ELT Journal 47:1)

Learner strategies (ELT Journal 47:1)

Fluency (ELT Journal 47:3)

Project work (ELT Journal 47:3)

Pragmatics (ELT Journal 48:1)

Scaffolding (ELT Journal 48:1)

Task-based learning and pedagogy (ELT Journal 53:1)

Feedback (ELT Journal 48:3)

Register (ELT Journal 48:3)

Universal grammar (ELT Journal 49:2)

Noticing (ELT Journal 50:3)

Schemas (ELT Journal 51:1)

Classroom research (ELT Journal 51:2)

Anaphora (ELT Journal 51:4)

Deductive vs. inductive language learning (ELT Journal 52:1)

Task (ELT Journal 52:3)

Genre (ELT Journal 53:2)

Evaluation (ELT Journal 54:2)

Lexical Chunks (ELT Journal 54:4)

Teachers' beliefs (ELT Journal 55:2)

Language-related episodes (ELT Journal 55:3)

'Focus on form' vs 'Focus on forms' (ELT Journal 56:3)

Observation (ELT Journal 57:2)

Loop input (ELT Journal 57:3)

Discourse communities (ELT Journal 57:4)

Globalization and language teaching (ELT Journal 58:1)

The apprenticeship of observation (ELT Journal 58:3)

Washback and impact (ELT Journal 59:2)

English as a lingua franca (ELT Journal 59:4)

The Common European Framework (ELT Journal 60:2)

Native-speakerism (ELT Journal 60:4)

Processing instruction (ELT Journal 61:2)

Motivation in ELT (ELT Journal 61:4)

Learner self-beliefs (ELT Journal 62:2)

Learner autonomy (ELT Journal 62:4)

Age and the critical period hypothesis (ELT Journal 63:2)

Innovation in ELT (ELT Journal 63:4)

Expertise in language learning and teaching (ELT Journal 64:2)