WordNet
n. learning to use a language
Wikipedia
Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Language Learning Research Club at the University of Michigan. The editor-in-chief is Nick C. Ellis University of Michigan.
Language Learning covers research on "fundamental theoretical issues in language learning such as child, second, and foreign language acquisition, language education, bilingualism, literacy, language representation in mind and brain, culture, cognition, pragmatics, and intergroup relations". The journal has two annual supplements, the Best of Language Learning Series and the Language Learning Monograph Series. It is also published in association with a biennial monograph, the Language Learning-Max Planck Institute Cognitive Neurosciences Series.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 1.218, ranking it 26th out of 161 journals in the category "Linguistics" and 42nd out of 203 journals in the category "Education & Educational Research".
Usage examples of "language learning".
She hadn't really been surprised when the Tines mastered Samnorsk quickly--that's the way it was in most adventures, and more to the point, they had the language learning programs in the dataset.
She hadn't really been surprised when the Tines mastered Samnorsk quickly -- that's the way it was in most adventures, and more to the point, they had the language learning programs in the dataset.
Ronnie, who had known he had no aptitude for language learning, now had a serviceable set of travelers' phrases, although he suspected his accent was atrocious.
He didn't have a generalized language learning course either, if there is one, which I doubt.
Barty was far ahead of the language learning curve for his age, but he was still a child, and his observations were filled with innocence and charm.
Only when a much younger child has suffered a brain injury then goes right back to the beginning of the language learning process again.