direct instruction

collocation in English

meaningsofdirectandinstruction

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/
us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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instruction
noun
uk
/ɪnˈstrʌk.ʃən/
us
/ɪnˈstrʌk.ʃən/
something that someone tells you ...
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(Definition ofdirectandinstructionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For over 30 years, the research has tended to support the effectiveness of methods that are based ondirectinstructionin decoding.
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The author claims that tasks anddirectinstructionpromoted learner awareness of conversational language at the discourse level.
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Some words are learned throughdirectinstructionwhere a teacher or other knowledgeable person defines an important concept.
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Current research suggests that many types ofdirectinstructionand intervention enhance learning, though, as always, more research is needed.
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While children did vary in how much they knew about print and its uses, this learning likely was not the by-product of muchdirectinstruction.
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One line of research involves the impact ofdirectinstructionthat explicitly raises student awareness of specific text structuring.
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These materials suggest a different understanding of the work of repair in sequences ofdirectinstruction, and in correction sequences as well.
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In principle, this learning might occur implicitly (through the extraction of print-speech correspondences in text) or explicitly (throughdirectinstruction).
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To compensate, students should receivedirectinstructionin the use of context clues.
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In its strongest version, it discards the usefulness ofdirectinstruction, focus on grammatical form, metalinguistic strategies, corrective feedback, active monitoring and controlled practice.
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The chapters on pragmatics and sociolinguistics also point out the limitations on what can be learned throughdirectinstruction.
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Humans learn from each other through imitation anddirectinstruction.
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The question for our common inquiry, then, is how to understand the play of repair in the routine discursive works of classroomdirectinstruction.
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The leader either manages the whole system by himself or hires a foreman for a fixed wage to perform some of the water management tasks under hisdirectinstruction.
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Children learn something about new words withoutdirectinstruction.
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In the path analysis, vocabulary clearly exerted indirect effects on phoneme awareness skills through exposure to reading-related experiences viadirectinstructionfrom parents on reading and printing words.
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Analyses of the three-turn sequence ofdirectinstructionhave substantially relied on prior work in the analysis of natural conversation, and especially the sequential organization of adjacently placed turns.
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