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| AAAL |
American Association for Applied Linguistics |
| ALM |
Audiolingual Method |
| AMTESOL |
Alabama-Mississippi TESOL |
| ATTLAS |
Augmenting Thinking through Language Acquisition Skills |
| AYP |
Adequate Yearly Progress |
| BICS |
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills |
| BINL |
Basic Inventory of Natural Language |
| BSM |
Bilingual Syntax Measure |
| C1 |
First culture; home culture |
| C2 |
Second culture; target culture |
| CAH |
Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis |
| CAL |
Center for Applied Linguistics |
| CALL |
Computer-Assisted Language Learning |
| CALLA |
Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach |
| CALP |
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency |
| CBI |
Content-Based Instruction |
| CC |
Communicative Competence |
| CLAD |
Crosscultural, Language, and Academic Development |
| CLI |
Cross-Linguistic Influence |
| CLiDES |
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Students |
| CLL |
Community Language Learning |
| CLT |
Communicative Language Teaching |
| CUP |
Common Underlying Proficiency |
| DRTA |
Directed Reading Thinking Activity |
| EAL |
English as an Additional Language |
| EEOA |
Equal Educational Opportunities Act |
| EFL |
English as a Foreign Language |
| EL |
English Learner |
| ELD |
English Language Development |
| ELL |
English Language Learner |
| ELT |
English Language Teaching |
| ESL |
English as a Second Language |
| ESOL |
English to Speakers of Other Languages |
| ESP |
English for Special Purposes |
| FEP |
Fluent English Proficient |
| FILL |
Facilitated Interdependent Language Learning |
| FLEP |
Former Limited English Proficient |
| FLP |
Family Language Plan |
| IPOTS |
Interactive Peer-to-Peer Oral Techniques |
| L1 |
First language; native language; home language |
| L2 |
Second or additional language(s) |
| LAD |
Language Acquisition Device |
| LAS |
Language Assessment Scales |
| LCD |
Linguistically and Culturally Diverse |
| LEA |
Language Experience Approach |
| LEA |
Local Educational Agency |
| LEP |
Limited English Proficient |
| LES |
Limited English Speaking/Speaker |
| LM |
Language Minority |
| L-TEL |
Long-Term English Learner |
| MBE |
Maintenance Bilingual Education |
| MLAT |
Modern Language Aptitude Test |
| NABE |
National Association for Bilingual Education |
| NCELA |
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition |
| NCLB |
No Child Left Behind |
| NEP |
Non-English Proficient |
| NES |
Non-English Speaking/Speaker |
| NEST |
Native English-Speaking Teacher |
| NNES |
Non-Native English Speaker |
| OCR |
U.S. Office for Civil Rights (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services) |
| OELA |
Office of English Language Acquisition (U.S. Dept. of Education) |
| PLAB |
Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery |
| SAE |
Student Acquiring English |
| SBI |
Strategies-Based Instruction |
| SDAIE |
Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English |
| SEA |
State Educational Agency |
| SETESOL |
Southeast Regional TESOL |
| SFL |
Systemic Functional Linguistics |
| SIFE |
Students with Interrupted Formal Education |
| SIOP |
Structured Instruction Observation Protocol |
| SLA |
Second Language Acquisition |
| SLIFE |
Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education |
| SLL |
Second Language Learner |
| SOLOM |
Structured Oral Language Observation Matrix |
| SUP |
Separate Underlying Proficiency |
| TBE |
Transitional Bilingual Education |
| TESOL |
Teaching English as a Second Language; Teaching English to Speakers of a Second Language |
TESOL Int'l Association
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Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages International Association |
| TOEFL |
Test of English as a Foreign Language |
| TPR |
Total Physical Response |
| TPRS |
Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling |
| UG |
Universal Grammar |
| WIDA |
(formerly) World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment |
| WTC |
Willingness To Communicate |
| ZOPD |
Zone of Proximal Development |
