StressThe syllables in words that are longer, louder,
and higher-pitched. At the word level, stress
falls on syllables. At the sentence level, stress falls on content words
(e.g., nouns, verbs, adjectives, and sometimes adverbs) while function words
(e.g., pronouns, determiners, prepositions, and auxiliary verbs) are
de-stressed. |
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. |