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- noun uncountable the condition of being
learnable - noun countable the
ease with which something can belearned
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This certainly calls the learnability and innateness hypotheses into question.
Archive 2004-12-01 Chris 2004
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This certainly calls the learnability and innateness hypotheses into question.
By Request: Reasoning Chris 2004
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"What I ask for is someone to point to an actual study made investigating esperantos "learnability" for learners with different starting points."
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What I ask for is someone to point to an actual study made investigating esperantos "learnability" for learners with different starting points.
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"learnability" by evoking a state of being more closely approximating childhood?
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As the usability increased, "learnability" simply vanished ... "
Computerworld News 2010
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As the usability increased, "learnability" simply vanished ... "
Computerworld News 2010
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As the usability increased, "learnability" simply vanished ... "
Computerworld News 2010
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Bartram & Walton, 1991 imply that teachers have to recognize a well known fact that ‘learnability varies from person to person’ and ‘all language learning is based on continual exposure, hypothesizing and, even with the correct hypothesis, testing and reinforcing the ideas behind them’.
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Due to pedagogical reasons, it might be helpful to think about the teachability-learnability scale as introduced by Dalton and Seidlhofer 1994 which suggests that there are certain aspects of the English pronunciation which appear to be easily taught; namely, phonemes, stress while others, such as intonation, are extremely dependent on individual circumstances and thus practically impossible to separate out for direct teaching.
Teaching Efl Pronunciation: Why, What and How? « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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