pre-teachingn
selecting new or difficult items that students will meet in a future classroom
activity, and teaching such items before the activity. For example, difficult
words in a listening-comprehension exercise may be taught before students
do the exercise.
preteriten
see past tense
pre-testn
seepost-test
pretestingn
also pilot testing, trialling
the try-out phase of a newly written but not yet fully developed test. Tests
under development may be revised on the basis of the item analysis
obtained from the results of pretesting.
pre-test sensitizationn
see external validity
pretonicn,adj
see tone unit
preverbal negationn
see postverbal negation
pre-writingn
see composing processes
primary cardinal voweln
see cardinal vowel
primary datan
in language acquisition, refers to the language that children hear.
see also evidence
primary languagen
also preferred language
people speaking more than one language (see bilingual, multilingual) may
not necessarily be most fluent in the first language they acquired as a child (the
primary language