noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a language student/learner
▪ Language learners often have problems with tenses.
a learner driver (=who is learning to drive)
▪ Learner drivers spend a lot of money on driving lessons.
learner's permit
quick learner
▪ She’s a quick learner.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adult
▪ The problem with adult learners is that they already have strategies for grammatical analysis and can efficiently use context in communication.
▪ The unit-based certificate is seen as appropriate for adult learners.
▪ The objective of the Resource Book is to allow your adult learners to pursue their studies in their own time.
fast
▪ Richard is a fast learner and shrewd observer.
▪ But we were fast learners and creative.
foreign
▪ Cassette has speakers in a variety of professional fields talking without concessions to foreign learners.
▪ Some foreign learners also have trouble with their aitches.
▪ Not surprisingly, dead metaphors as a rule present fewer problems to foreign learners of a language than idioms do.
▪ They pose problems to foreign language learners and native speaker learners alike.
individual
▪ The senior nurse may also allocate time for individual teaching of learners, or for group tutorial sessions.
▪ The first priority was the addition of supplemental and enriching instructional resources for the individual special learner.
▪ A library is an organization of recorded knowledge for the autonomous individual learner.
▪ Are they reflective of individual learner needs and individual levels of mental and physical development?
▪ Programmed texts can not replace the teacher, but do enable her to give more individual assistance to learners.
quick
▪ She was strong, nimble, and a quick learner.
▪ Not only are leaders learners, but they are quick learners and they enjoy learning.
▪ A quick learner and a creative entrepreneur, he was continually dreaming up new schemes to promote and enlarge the business.
slow
▪ Eventual guaranteed success is often a very desirable aspect, especially for young or slow learners.
▪ By portraying herself as a slow learner, Wong affords her reader a superior and even a smug position.
▪ Actually he majored in Phys Ed, but to tell you the truth, Rickie was always a slow learner.
▪ What a slow learner I am!
▪ He introduced a quite different strand: I was a slow learner.
▪ But jump rope is an activity for the slow and steady learner.
▪ In Balbinder's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner.
▪ Indeed, they were probably worried about why the baby was a slow learner.
special
▪ We must also see these settings as special communities of learners.
▪ In dealing with the special learner, seeing the materials to be used is a necessity.
▪ Not enough money to share among the special learners who have an equal right to education with every other child?
▪ It helps a great deal to look at special learners first as children, and then as people needing special help.
▪ Refining, narrowing, focusing, and applying are all words that are key to teaching the limited special learner.
▪ These aspects are central to all program management, whether for special learners or not.
▪ The intent is that the special learner be educated side by side with other children to the extent that this is possible.
▪ But the idea of library media specialists teaching and providing library media services to special learners is scary all the same.
young
▪ In addition to subject-specific language needs, teachers need to be aware of the situation-specific linguistic demands made upon young learners in primary classrooms.
▪ Both videos are sparkling situation comedies written especially for adult and young adult learners.
▪ Eventual guaranteed success is often a very desirable aspect, especially for young or slow learners.
▪ Grammar Grammar is a new series of four appealing grammar books for young learners.
▪ The World Around Us Fascinating topics for young learners ranging from blood banks to deserts.
▪ This provides young learners with the stimulus and movement necessary to hold their attention and keep them enthusiastically involved.
■ NOUN
driver
▪ Residents say too many learner drivers are taking lessons in their streets, and now they want the L-plates moved on.
▪ Among excess alcohol offenders, 10% are learner drivers or riders and 11% drive whilst disqualified or have no driving licence.
language
▪ N.B. Languages and language learners are very idiosyncratic and what works for some may not work for others.
▪ Foreign language learners need to enter into long stretches of communication, in real and complex situations.
▪ The direct questions we needed to ask of deaf people could not be asked adequately, since we were only language learners.
▪ The book is designed specifically with the needs of the language learner in mind.
▪ Their value for a language learner is that they contain all kinds of examples of people communicating.
▪ Obviously this would only apply to programmes which would be used by many language learners.
▪ The language learner needs to be able to handle language which is not idealized - language in use.
▪ Some language learners also find it easier to hear e.g. a word initial sound at a predictable point in a frame.
■ VERB
allow
▪ It allows learners to be creative within a carefully controlled language framework.
▪ The objective of the Resource Book is to allow your adult learners to pursue their studies in their own time.
become
▪ In the interview, it is stressed that the informant should direct the discussion because the ethnographer becomes the learner.
▪ In order for most of us to become self-motivated learners, we need to reach a certain level of success.
▪ In the learning society, all adults become perpetual learners in a variety of situations and at a variety of sites.
give
▪ Whichever way word- processing is used it gives learners the means of refining text until it satisfies them.
▪ Providing this atmosphere gives the learner the motivation to go ahead and to try to achieve still more.
▪ Personnel other than ward staff will be involved, and the attention given to teaching learners may be small.
▪ To give the learner visual, tactile and aural stimuli, which increase the learning experience.
▪ When one gives the learner feedback on her ability these skills provide a framework for assessment.
▪ Classroom instruction is invaluable in providing some of this background and in giving the learner confidence.
▪ Recordings of different people talking give learners access to a wider range of voices and accents.
▪ This gives learners guidance in their self-directed learning, and encourages a problem-solving approach to care.
help
▪ Secondly, the linking of form to function may help learners to orientate themselves within a discourse.
▪ Such teaching helps the learner to sort out the facts an to make some judgments and decisions about them.
▪ To help the learner, complex examples should be reduced to the essential characteristics and differences emphasised.
▪ It must therefore help learners when they listen to a foreign language if they can see as well as hear what is going on.
▪ But it might help your learners if they used some of your techniques for the first five or ten minutes of viewing.
▪ And video's moving pictures also help learners concentrate because they provide a focus of attention while they listen.
▪ A variety of comprehension exercise types help the learner to look for information and to recognize language forms.
▪ This is thought to help learners become adaptable and autonomous people, able to engage in good thinking in practical contexts.
provide
▪ Project Video stimulates active language use Project Video provides a stimulus for learners to produce their own projects.
▪ The making of a video recording provides a goal for learners to work towards and this is a motivating factor.
▪ In this way, teaching which provides for learner development serves the cause of teacher development at the same time.
▪ This provides young learners with the stimulus and movement necessary to hold their attention and keep them enthusiastically involved.
teach
▪ This method is less time-consuming as one teacher will be teaching several learners.
▪ But there is a great deal more to teaching the special learner successfully than just having faith, hope, and courage.
▪ Refining, narrowing, focusing, and applying are all words that are key to teaching the limited special learner.
▪ Keeping this in mind will serve the library media specialist well when it comes to teaching the special learner.
▪ Such teaching helps the learner to sort out the facts an to make some judgments and decisions about them.
▪ The center took as an initial goal demonstrating the positive effect of good library media use in the teaching of special learners.
▪ Understanding how to teach the mainstreamed special learner is of paramount concern to the teacher who must do it.
▪ The center also helped school personnel to cope with state and federal mandates relative to identifying and teaching the special learner.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A good teacher holds the learner's interest and stimulates them to find out more.
▪ A major aim of education is to improve learners' understanding of the world around them.
▪ At the end of each chapter there is a series of exercises designed to help the learner.
▪ James was a fast learner, and was soon better at tennis than his coach.
▪ You're a quick learner! It took me ages to get the hang of it.