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Measurable adjective
Able to be measured in order to discover its exact size, amount
Milestone noun
A time when a piece of work must be finished or something must be achieved
Mindfulness noun
The practice of being aware of your body, mind, and feelings in the present moment, thought to create a feeling of calm
Momentum noun
The quality that keeps an event developing or making progress after it has started
Monitor verb
to watch and check a situation carefully for a period of time in order to discover something about it
Native speaker noun
Someone who has spoken a particular language since they were a baby, rather than having learned it as a child or adult
Overwhelmed verb
To cause someone to feel sudden strong emotion
Overcome verb
To defeat or succeed in controlling or dealing with something
Observer noun
A person who watches what happens but has no active part in it
Optimize verb
to make something as good or effective as possible
Parenthesis noun
A remark that is added to a sentence, often to provide an explanation or extra information, that is separated from the main part of the sentence by commas, brackets, or dashes
Perspective noun
A particular way of viewing things that depends on one’s experience and personality
Portfolio
A collection of work that a learner uses to show what he/she has done during a particular course. A purposeful document, regularly added to that may be part of continuous assessment.
Policy noun
A set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a political party
Prediction noun, predict verb
A technique or learning strategy learners can use to help with listening or reading. Learners think about the topic before they read or listen. They try to imagine what the topic will be or what they are going to read about or listen to, using clues like headlines or pictures accompanying the text or their general knowledge about the text type or topic.