Glossary & New Concepts

Teaching foreign languages (TFL)

Second language acquisition (SLA)

Educational psychology (EP)

Psycholinguistics

The Grammar-translation method (GTM)

The method of governess

The Direct method of teaching foreign languages

Communicative language teaching (CLT)

The propriospective language learning method

The silent way

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The Natural Approach

The total physical Approach

Pedagogical psychology

The epistemological beliefs

Entity

The Verbal activity

teaching and acquisition of the second, third and etc. languages

is the process by which people of a language can learn a second language in addition to their native language(s) 

is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.

the science that studies the psychological and linguistic aspects of speech activities of human, social and psychological aspects of language use in the processes of verbal communication

is a foreign language teaching method derived from the classical (sometimes called traditional) method of teaching Greek and Latin.

is the most primitive method of teaching foreign languages

sometimes called the natural method, refrains from using the learners' native language and uses only the target language.

is an approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages that emphasizes  interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language. 

is a language learning technique which emphasizes  simultaneous development of  cognitive,  motor, neurological, and auditory functions as all being part of a comprehensive language learning process.

is a discovery learning approach, invented by Caleb Gattegno in the 1950s.

was a method that experienced popularity especially in past years, with both staunch supporters and very strong critics, some claiming it is based on pseudoscience.

is a language teaching method deleoped by Stephen Krashen and Tracy D. Terrell. They emphasise the learner receiving large amounts of comprehensible input. 

the instructor gives the students commands in the target language and the students act those commands out using whole-body responses.

is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations

means beliefs about knowledge

is something that has a distinct, separate existence, although it need not be a material existence

people use these activities to master the surrounding reality