An ELT Glossary : Terms beginning with P


This section is constantly under development. New terms are being added all the time.

Pairwork                    
Palatal consonants
Parallel syntax 
Parataxis
PARSNIPS
Participles
Particle
Partitive Nouns
Passive voice               
Past participle 
Patient
Perfect aspect                         
Performance                            
Performative verbs
Periphrastic verbs
Personalisation activities
Persuasive texts
Phatic communication
Phoneme
Phrasal verbs                            
Phrasal prepositional verbs
Phrase
Pitch/Key                   
Placement test                        
Place of articulation  
Plateau Stage                     
Plosive/Stop consonants
Plural nouns
Polysemy
Polywords   
Post-head (grammar)  
Postmodification /Postmodifiers   
PPP                       
Practicality 
Practice
Pragmatic competence                     
Pragmatics
Predicative adjectives                    
Predictive validity
Preferred second
Prefix
Pre-head (grammar)
Pre-head (intonation)
Pre-listening and Pre-reading Activities           
Premodification / Premodifiers                 
Preposition 
Prepositional complement
Prepositional object                
Prepositional phrase                             
Prepositional verbs
Prescriptive grammar    
Presentation    
Presentation, Practice, Production                               
Present participle
Pre-sequences
Primarily interactive discourse
Primarily transactional discourse
Primary auxiliaries 
Primary stress
Priming
Procedural texts         
Process-based approaches
Process writing
Production
Product Writing
Product-based approaches
Productive/receptive skills
Proficiency tests   
Proforms
Progessive aspect           
Progress tests 
Prominence                  
Proper nouns
Prosodic Features/ Prosody
Pseudo-cleft sentence
PW (Pairwork)