Prescriptive categories in micro-teaching in a pre-service TEFL programme

An attempt to introduce assessment on a programme of microteaching for pre-service Saudi-Arabian teachers in training leads to the formulation of prescriptive categories of teacher behaviours. From phrases of the lesson, behaviours involving. “Warm-up”, “revision and linkage”, “situational presentation”, “modelling”, and “class practice” are evolved. Communicated to the students these assist discussion and assessment of students microteaching.