Thursday 29 December 2011

TEACHING OF ENGLISH

Some Important terms
1. Simulation: is the imitation of some real thing available, state of affairs, or process. The act of simulating something generally entails representing certain key characteristics or behaviours of selected physical or abstract system.
2. Bilingual : a person who knows and uses two languages.
Mother tongue ( MT or L1 ) : The language which is first learned by the child at home. ( Informal Language )
Second Language (SL) : Any language learned after the mother tongue. ( Formal Language
Target Language (TL) : The Language which is being learned in a formal way. ( Formal Language )