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Multilingual glossary of key terms in language education

This page presents an overview of key terms, definitions and references used in ECML projects since 2012. The aim of this compilation is:
  • to offer easy access to ECML terminology;
  • to promote the establishment of multilingual terminology through bilingual or trilingual glossaries;
  • to highlight the role of glossaries in ensuring solid theoretical underpinnings to ECML practice-oriented projects and resources.
Terms in English
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Please note: The terms and their definitions have been established for specific project purposes. Therefore, some terms are listed more than once and offer different definitions and different approaches, e.g. scientific and theory-based definitions, policy-oriented definitions or definitions for communication purposes in practical contexts. 

For each entry there is a link to the resource website which presents the context and the scope of the relevant term for which it has been defined. 

  
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ability to learn  Available in sign language

ability to learn

academic language

accountability

achievement

acquisition

action research

action research

action-oriented

action-oriented approach

action-oriented approach

action-oriented approach

action-oriented tasks

acts of speech

adapting the CEFR descriptors

additional language(s)

advocacy

affective nuances

agency

agency

alternative evaluation

ambiguity

analytic rating scale

analytical discourse

approach

approach

appropriacy

area

aspects of language use

assessment

assessment

assessment

assessment as learning

assessment for learning

assessment grids

assessment grids/rubrics

assessment of learning

asynchronous communication

authentic

authenticity

autonomous

autonomy

autonomy

autonomy

Shortcut: www.ecml.at/glossaries 


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Other relevant terminology resources


Council of Europe | Glossary "Language support for adult refugees":
Dutch – English – French – German – Greek – Italian – Spanish – Turkish 
   

Agency of the European Union
Cedefop – European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training | Terminology of European education and training policy:
English – French – Italian – Portuguese – Spanish