Staccato 601 Words You Need to Know /stəˈkɑː.təʊ/ (adj, adv & noun) Definition (in musical direction) in quick short notes that are separated or detached from each other, played separately and in detached short notes, monosyllabic, disjointed, disconnected, clipped – staccato passage or performance Example Staccato is a form of musical direction or articulation. In…
Bravura 601 Words You Need to Know /brəˈvjʊə.rə/ (adj & noun) Definition Adjective: shoring or requiring brilliant skills and styles in an artistic performance especially in music, impressive, outstanding, superlative, virtuoso, dazzling, superb, magnificent Noun: (esp in music) dazzling and impressive artistic flair showing great skill and style in performance, courage, boldness, guts, expertise, daring,…
Bring Down the House 1100 Words You Need Bring Down the House 1100 Words You Need Week 27 to win the enthusiastic approval of the audience, to cause great enthusiasm, to entertain and amuse people, to make people laugh and have a good time Since leaving a white-collar marketing job in 1992, Dave Ruch has…
Reading and listening practice on how to stay calm in crucial moments with a video and its transcript Listening practice on how to stay calm Lecturer, author or publisher: Noa Kageyama and Pen-Pen Chen on TED-Ed YouTube Channel Watch this video on YouTube Reading practice on how to stay calm Your favorite athlete closes in…
English Presentation Performance Evaluation English Presentation Performance Evaluation Watch this video on YouTube LELB Society’s Lecturer: Sasan Handout Provided by the Lecturer When specifically is the importance of evaluation taken into account? Enumerate the 3 main classifications of evaluation presented by the lecturer. What is a benchmark? Which type of evaluation is your favorite one?…
Confidence IELTS Listening Reading Practice Lecturer, author or publisher: David Dunning on TED-Ed Confidence IELTS Reading Practice Watch this video on YouTube What is confidence? Are you as good at things as you think you are? How good are you at managing money? What about reading people’s emotions? How healthy are you compared to other people you…
Competence Competence corresponds to the I-language (Internal Language). Competency is the speaker/hearer’s knowledge of his language. It’s an abstract version of knowledge. Competency is independent of situation. It represent what the speaker knows in the abstract. The different types of competence are: grammatical competency, linguistic competency, communicative competency, pragmatic competency, Communicative Competency: Discourse Competency: The…
Speech Acts Speech acts are carried out over various turns and their exact shape takes into account interlocutor reactions. In other words, conversation is co-constructed by both interlocutors, which is something that can never be simulated with DCTs. Speech acts are certainly the most researched area of pragmatics, and they are arguably the most social,…
Evidence-Centered Design Evidence-centered Design was developed by Mislevy. It is important that we see the tasks or items that we design for tests as part of a larger picture, and one approach to doing this in a systematic way is ECD, a methodology for test design and construction developed at Educational Testing Service (ETS). ECD is…
Error Analysis Error Analysis (EA) The history of error analysis dates back from the late 1960s. Corder spelt out the theoretical rationale and empirical procedures for carrying out an error analysis. Corder noted that errors provided the researcher with evidence of who language was learnt, and also that they served as devices by which the…