Information-gap activity A classroom activity in which students work in pairs or groups. Students are given
a task, but they are given different information and to complete the task, they have
to find out the missing information from each other.
Innatism A theory that human beings are born with same basic knowledge
about languages in general that makes it possible to learn the specific language of
the environment.
Interactionism A theory that language acquisition is based both on learners’ innate abilities
and on opportunities to engage in conversations in which other speakers modify
their speech to match the learners’ communication requirements.
Interference When the learner’s
mother tongue influences their performance in the
target language . A learner may make a mistake because they use the same grammatical
pattern in the target language as they use in their mother tongue. The
L1 grammatical pattern is not
appropriate in
L2 .
Interlanguage Learners’ own version of the second language which they speak as they learn.
Interlanguage is constantly changing and developing as learners learn more of the
second language.
Jigsaw listening/reading A text which is divided into two or more parts. Students have to listen to or read
their part, then share their information with other students in order to complete the
task.
Jumbled paragraphs, pictures, sentences A text in which the paragraphs or sentences are not in the correct order, or a series
of pictures that are in the wrong order. The students have to put the text or pictures
into the correct order.
