stani's collection of acronym

Acronyms
1. ACLL- Assessing Children’s Language Learning
2. AFC- Attainment Follow up Committee
3. ALD- Advance Learner’s Dictionary
4. ALDCE- Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
5. ALM- Audio-Lingual Method
6. APE- Acquisition Poor Environment
7. ASL- American Sign Language
8. BL- Bi-Lingual method
9. CA- Contrastive Analysis
10.CAH- Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis

11. CALL- Computer Assisted Language Learning
12. CALI- Computer Assisted Language Instructions

13. CALP- Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
14. CBLT- Content Based Language Teaching
15. CB- Common Belief
16. CC- Current Consensus
17. CCELD- Collins COBUILD English LanguageDictionary
18. CELT- Centre for English Language Teaching
19. CLL- Community Language Learning
20. CLT- Communicative Language Teaching
21. CMC- Computer-Mediated Communication
22. CN- Code Number
23. COLT- Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching
24. CP- Controlled Practice
25. CPH- Critical Period Hypothesis
26. CT- Class Test
27. CTP- Communicational Teaching Project
28. DEAR- Drop Everything And Read
29. DM- Direct Method
30. DP- Direct Practice
31. EAL- English as an Additional Language
32. EAP- English for Academic Purposes
33. EED– Educational Evaluation Department
34. EFL– English as a Foreign Language
35. EFM- English For Me
36. EIL- English as an International Language
37. ELF- English as Lingua Franca
38. ELL- English Language Learner
39. ELT- English Language Teaching
40. ESD- English as a Second Dialect
41. ESL- English as a Second Language
42. ESOL– English for Speakers of Other Languages
43. ESP- English for Specific/ Special Purposes
44. FLA- First/ Foreign Language Acquisition
45. FLT- Foreign Language Teaching
46. GR- Grade/ Grammar
47. GSL- General Service List of English Words
48. GTM- Grammar-Translation Method
49. GW- Group Work
50. IATEFL– International Association of Teachers of English as a

Foreign Language
51. IELTS- International English Language Systems
52. ILO- Intended Learning Outcome
53. KAL- Knowledge About Language
54. KOLS- Knowledge Of Language Systems
55. KOW- Knowledge Of the World
56. L1- Language (first)
57. L2- Language (second)
58. LAC- Language Across the Curriculum
59. LAD- Language Acquisition Device
60. LAL- Language Acquisition Learning
61. LDs- Learner’s Dictionaries
62. LDOCE- Longman Dictionary Of Contemporary English
63. LEP– Limited English Proficiency
64. LLT- Language Learning Tasks
65. LSRW- Listening Speaking Reading and Writing
66. LST- Listening
67. LTM- Language Teaching Methods
68. LG- Letter Grade
69. MCTI- Multiple Choice Test Items
70. MLAT- Modern language Aptitude Test
71. MM- Mastery Method
72. NA- Natural Approach
73. NCB- Non Class Based
74. NELTS- National English Language Testing Systems
75. NEMS- Non English Medium Schools
76. NS- Number Score
77. OED- Oxford English Dictionary
78. OM- Oral Method
79. OWTE- Our World Through English
80. PK- Productive Knowledge
81. PLAB- Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery
82. RA- Reflective Approach
83. RK- Receptive Knowledge
84. SA- Structural Approach
85. SBA- Strategy-Based Approach
86. SLA- Second Language Acquisition
87. SLT- Second Language Teaching
88. ST- Semester Test
89. SW- The Silent Way
90.TBT- Task Based Language Teaching
91. TEFL– Teaching English as Foreig Language
92. TESL – Teaching English as Second Language
93.TESOL- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
94. TOEFL-Testing Of English as Foreign Language
95.TPR- Total Physical Response
96.TWGN- Test Writers Guidance Notes
97. UG- Universal Grammar
98. VC– Vocabulary

99.VLS- Vocabulary Learning Strategies

100. ZPD- Zone of Proximal Development

--Collected by A. Stanislaus