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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.
Peer correction
Peer correction is a classroom technique where learners correct each other, rather than the teacher doing this.
Pejorative
A pejorative is a word or phrase that is used to express contempt.
Pelmanism
In ELT Pelmanism refers to any activity that learners have to complete by memorising objects.
Personalisation
Personalisation happens when activities allow students to use language to express their own ideas, feelings, preferences and opinions.
Phatic communication
Phatic communication is verbal or non-verbal communication that has a social function, such as to start a conversation, greet someone, or say goodbye, rather than an informative function.
Phonemes
Phonemes are the smallest units of sounds in a language.
Phonemic script
Phonemic script is a transcription of the sounds of a word or phrase, using phonemic symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
Phonemic symbols
Phonemic symbols are the symbols used to represent individual phonemes in transcription, typically found next to a word in a dictionary.
Phonetics
Phonetics is the study of human speech.
Phonics
Phonics is a method of teaching young learners how to read which focuses on how letters make sounds, and how these sounds make words.