Microsoft Word Glossary March 2011 doc

 
Rapport, build rapport 
The relationship between the teacher and learners. Teachers try to build or create a good rapport or relationship with 
their learners. 
 
Rationale 
The reason for doing something, e.g. the rationale for pre-teaching vocabulary before learners read a text is to help 
learners read the text more easily. When teachers plan a lesson, they think about a rationale for activities and 
procedures. 
 
Read for detail: see detail. 
 
Read for gist, global understanding: see gist. 
 
Read for mood: see mood. 
 
Realia 
Real objects such as clothes, menus, timetables and leaflets that can be brought into the classroom for a range of 
purposes.  
 
Recall 
noun + verb
 
To remember, bring something back into the mind.  
 
Recast
To reword a sentence or phrase to improve it, e.g.
Learner:
I find myself unable to accept your statement.  
Teacher:
Oh, you don’t agree. Why not?
Teachers recast language which may not contain errors but which is inappropriate for the context it is being used in. 
Compare with Reformulate.  
 
Receptive skills 
When learners do not have to produce language; listening and reading are receptive skills. See productive skills. 
 
Recycle
To focus on words or structures that have been taught before, for revision and more practice.
 
Re-draft 
When a piece of writing is changed with the intention of improving it. A writer’s first draft may be re-drafted.
See draft, process writing. 
 
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Reduced relative clause 
A relative clause in which the relative pronoun and possibly the auxiliary have been left out, e.g. in the 
sentences The person I saw on the bus, (‘who’ is left out); The house hit by the storm (‘which was’ is left out). 
 

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