Teaching Knowledge database N-P

A process-oriented syllabus focuses on the skills and processes involved in learning language.

A proclaiming tone is an intonation pattern that either rises and then falls, or just falls.

A product-oriented syllabus focuses on things learnt at the end of the learning process (outcomes) rather than the process itself.

The productive skills are speaking and writing, because learners doing these need to produce language.

A proficiency test measures a learner's level of language.

Project work is work which focuses on completing a task.

Prompts are stimuli a teacher uses to get learners to give a response using target language.

Prosodic features are features that appear when we put sounds together in connected speech.

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.