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Assistantship: Working as a language assistant in an educational institution, normally teaching his/her L1

CAT: Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme
CILT: Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research
Culture shock: “Anxiety relating to disorientation from exposure to a new culture” (Gass & Selinker, 1994:237)

ECTS: European Credit Transfer System
ELPS: European Language Proficiency Survey (Coleman, 1996)
ERASMUS: European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students
EU: European Union

FDTL: Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning

HEFCE: Higher Education Funding Council for England
HEI: Higher Education Institution
HESA: Higher Education Statistics Agency

IWLP: Institution Wide Language Programme

L1: First Language/Mother tongue
L1land: Country where L1 is spoken by natives
L2: Second/Foreign Language
L2land: Country where L2 is spoken by natives
Language Shock: “The realization that you must seem comic to speakers of the TL” (Gass & Selinker, 1994:237)
LARA: Learning and Residence Abroad project
LTSN: Learning and Teaching Support Network
LWTL: Less Widely Taught Language

NCT: National Co-ordination Team
NISS: National Information Services and Systems
NRAD: National Residence Abroad Database

QAA: The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

RA: Residence Abroad
RAM: Residence Abroad Matters
RAPPORT: Residence Abroad Project @ PORTsmouth

RLUS: Russian Language Undergraduate Study

SLA: Second Language Acquisition
Socrates: Community action programme in the field of education
Studentship: Studying abroad in a foreign university or educational institution

TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language
TL: Target Language
TQA: Teaching Quality Assessment
TQEF: Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund

UCML: University Council for Modern Languages

Work Placement: Working in a company or other institution as a trainee, sometimes called “internship” (US) or “stage” (France)

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