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Rapport [Glossary of language teaching terms and ideas]
Relationship, usually a harmonious one, established within a classroom between teacher and students and among students.
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Realia [Glossary of language teaching terms and ideas]
Real or actual objects used as teaching aids to make learning more natural; can include forms, pictures, tickets, schedules, souvenirs, advertisements and articles from English magazines or newspapers, and so on.
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Rear vault [Architectural glossary]
Vault of the internal hood of a doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal, sometimes the vaulting surface is terminated by a small rib known as the scoinson rib, and a further development is given by angle shafts carrying this rib, known as scoinson shafts.
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Recycling or spiralling [Glossary of language teaching terms and ideas]
Sometimes called the cyclical approach; the purpose is to repeat language items throughout the syllabus; each time a language item is encountered more detail about it is added; this allows students to build on prior knowledge.
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Register [Glossary of language teaching terms and ideas]
Level of formality in speech with others; register depends on the situation, location, topic discussed, and other factors.
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Return [Architectural glossary]
The receding edge of a flat face. On a flat signboard, for example, the return is the edge which makes up the board's depth.
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An entrance door for excluding drafts from an interior of a building. A revolving door typically consists of three or four doors that hang on a center shaft and rotate around a vertical axis within a round enclosure.
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RSS [Glossary of blogging terms]
Really Simple Syndication is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
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RSS aggregator [Glossary of blogging terms]
Software or online service allowing a blogger to read an RSS feed, especially the latest posts on their favourite blogs. Also called a reader, or feedreader.
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RSS feed [Glossary of blogging terms]
The file containing a blog’s latest posts. It is read by an RSS aggregator/reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated. It may contain only the title of the post, the title plus the first few lines of a post, or the entire post.
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