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  2. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    James Watt was a surveyor and instrument maker and is described as being "largely self-educated". [15] Watt, like some other autodidacts of the time, became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Lunar Society. In the eighteenth century these societies often gave public lectures and were instrumental in teaching chemistry and other ...

  3. Lesson - Wikipedia

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    "The Difficult Lesson" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884) Falconry lesson. A lesson or class is a structured period of time where learning is intended to occur. [citation needed] It involves one or more students (also called pupils or learners in some circumstances) being taught by a teacher or instructor.

  4. Direct method (education) - Wikipedia

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    Employ different examples of Element that are easy to understand, changing country/city names, people names, and words student already knows. Keep a list of everything taught, so proper testing may be done. D. Observation and Notation: Teacher should maintain a student list of words/phrases that are most difficult for that student. The list is ...

  5. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    A group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words: “She let the cat out of the bag” or “He was caught red-handed.” Inductive teaching Also known as induction, from the verb “to induce”; a facilitative, student-centred teaching technique where the students discover language rules through extensive ...

  6. Socratic questioning - Wikipedia

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    Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) [1] is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of students. According to Plato, Socrates believed that "the disciplined practice of thoughtful questioning enables the scholar/student to examine ideas and be able to determine the validity of those ideas". [2]

  7. Active learning - Wikipedia

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    When the teacher asks a question related to a topic that has been taught, students will write their answers individually within 60 seconds. 3- "Think-pair-share" is a method that has been used to walk students through three ways of learning. First, every student will come up with an answer regarding a question presented by the instructor.

  8. 'Get on it AY-sep!' Foreign words have invaded Korea. The ...

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    After attaining his Korean linguistics PhD, he taught at a university before realizing he preferred being out in the field, joining the institute in 2007. “I wanted to make a difference and ...

  9. Word learning biases - Wikipedia

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    It is unclear if the word-learning constraints are specific to the domain of language, or if they apply to other cognitive domains. Evidence suggests that the whole object assumption is a result of an object's tangibility; children assume a label refers to a whole object because the object is more salient than its properties or functions. [7]