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Read articles written by expert teachers and English language professionals about a wide range of current English language teaching topics and issues. All of our articles feature ideas and suggestions about how you can develop your teaching and bring new ideas into your English language classroom.
Prosodic features
Prosodic features are features that appear when we put sounds together in connected speech.
Pyramid discussion
A pyramid discussion is a speaking activity where learners form progressively larger groups as they carry out a speaking task, which normally requires each grouping to reach agreement before joining another group.
Quantifier
Quantifiers are words put before nouns to show how many there are.
Rapport
Rapport in language learning refers to the relationship between the teacher and the learners.
Rating scale
A rating scale is a scale against which a learner’s performance is rated, producing a quantifiable result.
Re-duplicatives
Re-duplicatives are one of the many ways new words are made in English.
Realia
Realia are real things that are brought to the class and used as a resource.
Received pronunciation - RP
Received pronunciation, or RP, refers to an accent in English regarded by many people as a ‘standard’ accent.
Receptive skills
The receptive skills are listening and reading, because learners do not need to produce language to do these, they receive and understand it.
Recycling
Recycling is practising language that learners have seen previously.