Key Concepts in ELT
'Key Concepts in ELT' is a feature of the Journal that aims to assist readers to develop an appreciation of central ideas in ELT, and to approach the content of articles from a perspective informed by current debate on aspects of theory and practice.
The list given below is an up-to-date guide to all 'Key Concepts' that have been published in the Journal. The list contains links to the original articles, which are available to download free of charge (PDF file).
- Learner training (ELT Journal 47:1)
- Learner strategies (ELT Journal 47:1)
- Fluency (ELT Journal 47:3)
- Project work (ELT Journal 47:3)
- Pragmatics (ELT Journal 48:1)
- Scaffolding (ELT Journal 48:1)
- Feedback (ELT Journal 48:3)
- Register (ELT Journal 48:3)
- Universal grammar (ELT Journal 49:2)
- Noticing (ELT Journal 50:3)
- Schemas (ELT Journal 51:1)
- Classroom research (ELT Journal 51:2)
- Anaphora (ELT Journal 51:4)
- Deductive vs. inductive language learning (ELT Journal 52:1)
- Task (ELT Journal 52:3)
- Task-based learning and pedagogy (ELT Journal 53:1)
- Genre (ELT Journal 53:2)
- Evaluation (ELT Journal 54:2)
- Lexical Chunks (ELT Journal 54:4)
- Teachers' beliefs (ELT Journal 55:2)
- Language-related episodes (ELT Journal 55:3)
- 'Focus on form' vs 'Focus on forms' (ELT Journal 56:3)
- Observation (ELT Journal 57:2)
- Loop input (ELT Journal 57:3)
- Discourse communities (ELT Journal 57:4)
- Globalization and language teaching (ELT Journal 58:1)
- The apprenticeship of observation (ELT Journal 58:3)
- Washback and impact (ELT Journal 59:2)
- English as a lingua franca (ELT Journal 59:4)
- The Common European Framework (ELT Journal 60:2)
- Native-speakerism (ELT Journal 60:4)
- Processing instruction (ELT Journal 61:2)
- Motivation in ELT (ELT Journal 61:4)
- Learner self-beliefs (ELT Journal 62:2)
- Learner autonomy (ELT Journal 62:4)