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STTStudent Talking Time. The amount of time that
students get to talk within a lesson. In a student-centered classroom, STT
should be increased, while TTT – Teacher Talking Time – should be decreased. | |
Student-CenteredLanguage activities, techniques, and methods in
which learners are the focus and the teacher plays only a peripheral role.
Students are allowed some control over activities and some input into the
curriculum. These activities encourage student creativity and autonomous learning.
Group work is one kind of student-centered activity. | |
SuffixA bound morpheme attached to the end of a word
that often changes the word’s part of speech, and sometimes its meaning, but (in the case of inflectional
morphemes) can also simply change nouns to plural or indicate a change in verb
tense. | |
SuggestopediaA humanistic teaching method where instructors
strive to create an environment conducive to learning by utilizing tools such
as relaxing wall colors, background music, and artwork. | |
SuprasegmentalsSpeech
features such as stress, rhythm, intonation, pitch, linking, pausing, and
thought groups. Whereas segmentals refer to individual sounds,
suprasegmentals extend past this and refer to things such as a string of
sounds, syllables, words, phrases or sentence level sound features. | |
Surface CulturePeople’s behaviors, actions, and practices, such as language, manners, customs, food, music, clothing, art, and literature. | |