Alternative English Teaching Jargon From TEFLtastic

Alex Case of TEFLtastic has come up with not one, two, or three, but four separate lists of alternative EFL jargon. Here are a few of my favorites:

advanced learner: a proficient user of a foreign language. One who can correct their teacher once or twice a term and still thinks it is clever to do so. A learner who could do so even more but has learnt that they are actually there to learn something and move up to the next level is defined as proficiency level.
clause- Clauses are the largest grammatical unit smaller than a whole sentence. Not to be confused with ‘Klaus’, who is the man with the largest waistline ever to attempt to wear leather shorts. [Puts a new spin on Santa, doesn't it?]

I was also pleased to see a couple of TEFL Logue-coined phrases included too (though I should point out that Alex came up with the definitions):

Trinity-kins- Teachers fresh off the Trinity Certificate, with a innocent, childlike enthusiasm still in their eyes
CELToids- a new generation of impeccably-trained CELTA-trained pre-teaching machines ready to take over the world

Alex’s creativity got me thinking: Have I made any contributions to TEFL jargon?

No, not really, and I will come clean here too and admit it was a colleague who either coined or told me about “CELToids”. But here are a few runners-up:

Skirmish (think you know what that is? Not in my book), the student heckler and, if I can invent one right now: volunteachers.

There is also a recent list of great new English words, though they are not related to teaching English. Thanks to Alex for incorporating a little TEFL Logue-lese and do direct other EFL jargon to TEFLtastic.