SLA & ELT acronyms

CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) is an approach to second language teaching that focuses all its efforts towards the development and practice of the appropriateness of language use in any given social context. By the same token, it emphasizes the functional and pragmatic aspects of language, and less likely highlights formal structures. In other words, it gives more importance and relevance to meaning and rules of use rather than to standard and formal grammatical rules (Rhalmi, 2009).








ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) refers to a sociolinguistic concept that advocates the existence of a common language that enables the communication between interlocutors who speak different languages. According to Nordquist (2020), English would function here as a vehicle whose main aim is to convey and receive information among speakers who do not share the same mother tongue. Thereupon, the term English as a lingua franca (ELF) is thoroughly related to the teaching, learning, and use of English as a mutual tool of communication for speakers of different first languages (Nordquist, 2020).



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EAL (English as an Additional Language) is a term extensively used to designate the study and use of the English language by non-native speakers, those whose first language is not English. These students can be skilled speakers of one or more home languages and, at the same time, they learn English as a second language at school or another institution. Consequently, this term is related to concepts like ESL (English as a second language), as mentioned above, and also to EFL (English as a foreign language) (Nordquist, 2020).






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