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presentation stage
presentation stage n
see STAGE
preservice education n
also preservice training
(in teacher education) a course or programme of study which student
teachers complete before they begin teaching. This may be compared with
INSERVICE EDUCATION, which refers to experiences which are provided for
teachers who are already teaching and which form part of their continued
professional development. Preservice education often sets out to show
future teachers basic teaching techniques and give them a broad general
background in teaching and in their subject matter. Inservice education or
training usually takes place for a specific purpose and often involves the
following cycle of activities:
1 assess participants’ needs
2 determine objectives for inservice programme
3plan content
4 choose methods of presentation and learning experiences
5 implement
6 evaluate effectiveness
7 provide follow-up assistance
Inservice programmes for language teachers are sometimes referred to as
Continuing Education for Language Teachers (CELT).
presupposition n presuppose v
what a speaker or writer assumes that the receiver of the message already
knows. For example:
speaker A: What about inviting Simon tonight?
speaker B: What a good idea; then he can give Monica a lift.
Here, the presuppositions are, among others, that speakers A and B know
who Simon and Monica are, that Simon has a vehicle, most probably a
car, and that Monica has no vehicle at the moment. Children often presuppose
too much. They may say:
... and he said “let’s go” and we went there.
even if their hearers do not know who he is and where there is.
see also COHERENCE, COHESION
pre-test n
see POST-TEST
pre-test sensitization n
see EXTERNAL VALIDITY
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