Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing helps the students understand technical terms or similar expressions, the reason being that they are helped through the double loop described under ‘What is most important when teaching through English?’

A couple of examples:

• The OECD closely monitors public expenditure trends, in other words, developments in the value of goods and services bought by state governments.
• In-group bias, that is to say favouring one’s own group over another, is a remarkably universal feature of inter-group relations.