slow learner

collocation in English

meaningsofslowandlearner

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slow
adjective
uk
/sləʊ/us
/sloʊ/
moving, happening, or doing something without ...
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learner
noun[C]
uk
/ˈlɜː.nər/us
/ˈlɝː.nɚ/
a person who is still ...
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(Definition ofslowandlearnerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I would not cast any aspersions on the performance of the teacher involved, and it was probably a triumph for theslowlearner.
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The trouble is that his school report shows him to be aslowlearner.
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We took steps to give every authority and every school the opportunity to cater for each individual, from the brightest to theslowlearner.
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He has been a veryslowlearner, but we are happy that he got there in the end.
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Perhaps he is aslowlearnerand needs more than 18 months.
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We do not spend enough time and effort on theslowlearner.
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He is a veryslowlearner.
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It is providing the highly academic course for the highly intellectual child, highly technical for the child of that aptitude, and a special remedial course for theslowlearner.
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He doesn't know if he was aslowlearner, or just not interested, but he did not do well in school until the seventh grade.
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As a young girl she was aslowlearnerand had to repeat grade 3.
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One of 11 children in a poor family, he was aslowlearnerin his youth.
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However, teachers dismissed his problems as being aslowlearner.
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But even if that were not the case, organizations, governments and all kinds of people can, indeed, be slow learners.
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There is much to learn from it, but we have been slow learners.
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However, political processes by themselves appear to be both slow learners and poor teachers.
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Speight stated in an interview he was aslowlearnerat school, with a short attention span, and art was a way for him to communicate.
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Between the seriously disturbed and those mildly backward, there is a whole range of slow learners needing special help.
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I should like to reply to the point he made about slow learners at the end of the debate.
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Local education authorities are encouraged to apply for additions to their teacher quota in order to improve their teaching of slow learners.
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This is part of the general problem of slow learners.
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