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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.
Prescriptive grammar
A prescriptive grammar is a set of rules about language based on how people think language should be used.
Prior knowledge
Prior knowledge is the knowledge the learner already has before they meet new information.
Process writing
Process writing focuses learners on the different stages and aspects of writing as they have been observed in good writers, and spend time on each, led by the teacher.
Process-oriented syllabus
A process-oriented syllabus focuses on the skills and processes involved in learning language.
Proclaiming tone
A proclaiming tone is an intonation pattern that either rises and then falls, or just falls.
Product-oriented syllabus
A product-oriented syllabus focuses on things learnt at the end of the learning process (outcomes) rather than the process itself.
Productive skills
The productive skills are speaking and writing, because learners doing these need to produce language.
Proficiency test
A proficiency test measures a learner’s level of language.
Project work
Project work is work which focuses on completing a task.
Prompts
Prompts are stimuli a teacher uses to get learners to give a response using target language.