Which term focuses on the skills and processes involved in learning language, such as collecting information and organizing ideas?

• A. Process-oriented syllabus
• B. Process writing
• C. Pre-teaching
• D. Preposition

Answer: (A)

Focusing on how learners actually acquire language, a process-oriented syllabus centers on the strategies, steps, and activities students use to develop language, not just what they end up producing. It emphasizes practices like collecting information, organizing ideas, planning, drafting, revising, and reflecting as integral parts of learning. This approach helps students become more autonomous and better able to transfer skills to new topics because they’re practicing the underlying ways language is learned. Process writing, by contrast, concentrates specifically on the steps of writing rather than language learning as a whole. Pre-teaching is about introducing items before a lesson, and a preposition is a grammar item, not a learning process. So the term that best matches the focus on learning processes and skills is the process-oriented syllabus.