Reflective (teachers)

Teachers who look back on the lessons they have taught and think about what worked and what did not work in order to improve their teaching.

Refresher course

A short period of training to improve one’s skills or to teach one about new ideas and developments in one’s jobю

Repetition (n.), repeat (v.)

To say something again, often for practice. This is often done in drills.

Report card ( AmE), school report (BrE)

A written statement about a student’s work at school, college, etc.

Resources

~ are the variety of sources teachers can draw on in the process of locating, selecting and/or producing ideas, texts, activities, tasks and reference materials useful for their learners. See aids, reference materials, learning resources.

Review (n., v.), revision (n.), revise (v.)

When a learner, often guided by the teacher, looks again at language that has already been taught in order to remember this language better. Teachers may choose to review vocabulary or grammatical structures in the classroom, for example, in order to help learners consolidate the language or to prepare for a test.

Revise (BrE), review ( AmE), study (for an exam)

Prepare for an exam by looking again at work that one has done

Rhyme

1. Words that sound similar because they have the same ending, e.g. hat, cat. 2. A song or poem with words that sound the same at the end of each line I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky.

Risk-taking

A personality factor which concerns the degree to which a person is willing to undertake actions that involve a significant degree of risk. ~ is said to be an important characteristic of successful foreign or second language learning, since learners have to be willing to try out hunches about the new language and take the risk of being wrong.

Role-play

A classroom activity in which learners are given roles to act out in a given situation, e.g. a job interview role-play where one learner would be the interviewer and the other learner would be the interviewee. Role-plays are usually done in pairs or groups.

Routine

Something which is done regularly such as a teacher setting writing homework every Friday. Teachers try to develop some routine habits in the classroom, e.g. always asking learners to record new words with their meaning and an example sentence. It also means ways of managing the classroom; an established set of expectations.

Rubric

Refers to a grading or scoring system. A rubric is a scoring tool that lists the criteria to be met in a piece of work. A rubric also describes levels of quality for each of the criteria. These levels of performance may be written as different ratings (e.g., Excellent, Good, Needs Improvement) or as numerical scores (e.g., 4, 3, 2, 1). It also means w ritten instructions for an exercise, activity or task in a test.

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