Dr. Comfort Pratt

Associate Professor Bilingual Education and Secondary Education

College of Education, Texas Tech University

Term – Word or expression that is peculiar to a field

Acronym – Word formed from the initial letters of other words

ASL – American Sign Language

BFLA – Bilingual First Language Acquisition

BICS – Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills.

CAH – Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis

CALL – Computer –Assisted Language Learning

CALP - Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency

CLAD - Culturally and Linguistically Diverse

CLT – Communicative Language Teaching

CPH – Critical Period Hypothesis

EL - English Learner

ELL - English Language Learner

ELT – English Language Teaching

ELD - English Language Development

ESL - English as a Second Language

ESP – English for Specific Purposes

EFL - English as a Foreign Language

FLA – First Language Acquisition

IQ – Intelligence Quotient

L1 - First Language, Native Language, Mother Tongue

L2 - Second Language, Foreign Language

LEP - Limited English Proficient

NS - Native Speaker

NNS - Non-Native Speaker

SLA - Second Language Acquisition

SLL - Second Language Learner

TEFL – Teaching English as a Foreign Language

TESL – Teaching English as a Second Language

TESOL – Teaching English to Students of Other Languages

TOEFL – Test of English as a Foreign Language

TPR – Total Physical Response

UG – Universal Grammar

ZPD – Zone of Proximal Development