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electronic discussion
electronic discussion n
online forums, such as bulletin boards, lists, or real-time conversation,
that provide a written record of all correspondents’ contributions
electronic literacies n
reading and writing practices in online environments
electronic portfolio n
in teacher education, a purposeful collection of a teacher’s work assembled
by electronic means and used to represent and display the teacher’s efforts,
growth and achievements in different areas. As with other kinds of PORT-
FOLIOS, the contents of an electronic portfolio are carefully planned and
chosen in relation to its purpose and goals. The portfolio may be used as an
aspectofprofessionaldevelopmentandalsoserveasthebasisforassessment.
elementary school n
see SCHOOL SYSTEM
elicitation n
also elicitation technique, elicitation procedure
any technique or procedure that is designed to get a person to actively
produce speech or writing, for example asking someone to describe a picture,
tell a story, or finish an incomplete sentence. In linguistics, these
techniques are used to prompt native speakers to produce linguistic data
for analysis. In teaching and second language research, the same and similar
techniques are used to get a better picture of learner abilities or a fuller
understanding of INTERLANGUAGE than the study of naturally occurring
speech or writing can provide.
elicited imitation n
an ELICITATION PROCEDURE in which a person has to repeat a sentence
which he or she sees or hears. When people are asked to repeat a sentence
which uses linguistic rules which they themselves cannot or do not use,
they often make changes in the sentence so that it is more like their own
speech. Elicited imitation can be used to study a person’s knowledge of a
language. For example:
stimulus sentence elicited imitation
Why can’t the man climb over Why the man can’t climb over the
the fence? fence?
elision n elide v
the leaving out of a sound or sounds in speech. For example, in rapid
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