explicit instruction

collocation in English

meaningsofexplicitandinstruction

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explicit
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt/us
/ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt/
clear ...
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instruction
noun
uk
/ɪnˈstrʌk.ʃən/us
/ɪnˈstrʌk.ʃən/
something that someone tells you ...
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(Definition ofexplicitandinstructionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexplicit instruction

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On the other hand, even withoutexplicitinstruction, a student may attempt to extract an explicit rule to characterize a set of input data.
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Furthermore, there is nothing in the implicit learning literature that says thatexplicitinstructioncannot further modulate implicit learning.
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Explicitinstructiondoes not necessarily lead to explicit learning.
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When target structures can be noticed and processed from the input spontaneously,explicitinstruction is less necessary and, in consequence, its effect will be smaller.
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When more criteria have to be applied,explicitinstructionis hypothesized to be more effective, as spontaneous noticing and processing would then be less likely.
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There was noexplicitinstructionto copy what she had done.
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It could be the case that some have receivedexplicitinstructionabout the ungrammaticality of some of the constructions but not of others.
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This is a prime motivation forexplicitinstruction.
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Two groups of 27 university students, differing in the exposure toexplicitinstruction, followed a computer-controlled self-study course in an artificial language.
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The children did not receiveexplicitinstructionon phoneme correspondences for the individual letters of the alphabet.
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However,explicitinstructionappears to be especially effective for introducing (new) lexical language items; for syntactic language items, the results are much less clear.
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The effect ofexplicitinstructiononly (without communicative context) is significantly reduced in the long term.
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At one extreme are those who have persistently denied the importance of anyexplicitinstructionin language acquisition.
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The studies differ in a number of other respects such as the kind of production tests administered and whetherexplicitinstructionaccompanied the structured-input.
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In addition to teaching lexical associations,explicitinstructionin gender-ending regularities would obviously be beneficial.
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Another approach is to show that children do actually receive negative feedback andexplicitinstructionwhich they can use.
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From the viewpoint of psycholinguistic theory, providing learners withexplicitinstructionalong with standard implicit exposure would seem to be a no-lose proposition.
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Language acquisition can be speeded byexplicitinstruction.
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Students who receiveexplicitinstruction, as well as implicit exposure to forms, would seem to have the best of both worlds.
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However, in terms of accuracy the two groups were both very poor when compared with other groups of subjects who had receivedexplicitinstruction.
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