Example sentences of "learn by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Learning by heart was standard procedure in ancient and medieval education .
2 But I know how many of my generation hated learning by heart .
3 In these and other books of the same kind the central characters strongly resemble one another and fulfil similar roles in the action as examples of young people learning by experience — and , for the most part , experience of an unexpected and dangerous kind .
4 Mathematical Education : Current projects include : Assessing the effectiveness of CAL packages in enhancing mathematics learning in secondary schools ; Assessing the extent to which certain important mathematical concepts are not understood by the adult population and devising corrective measures ; Assessing the effectiveness of learning mathematics by investigative methods ; an open learning approach to investigative methods in mathematics ; The place of geometry in the curriculum ; Learning by case study .
5 Owing to shortage of teachers in nurse education , and the number of learners , we are gradually returning to learning by discovery , with the teacher acting as guide , counsellor and facilitator — in other words , the learner is doing .
6 Learning by discovery does n't mean reinventing the wheel each time you need to move the wagon .
7 Learning by rote lines which , with their unexpected changes of stress and metre , might baffle a teenager confronting the printed page , combined forces found strength in numbers and support from the resourceful accompaniment .
8 Learning by rote has been long out of fashion , but I loved reciting poetry , and can remember long poems learned when I was too young to understand the words , but just loved the sound of them .
9 Nor do we see it as part of our task to plead for a return to old-fashioned grammar teaching and learning by rote .
10 The new-look lessons will turn the clock back to the 1950s — the days before learning by rote ceased to be popular in schools .
11 More subtly he is also restricted by attempting to set the knowledge in another artificial situation , the educational process of sitting in classrooms learning by rote leavened by some understanding and being examined and tested in standardised situations .
12 Learning by rote is no guarantee that learning has been achieved .
13 But it does not favour a return to ‘ old-fashioned formal teaching of grammar ’ or learning by rote .
14 The principle of learning by doing was familiar to all supervisors , not least Käthe Fischel from Prague , one of the youngsters who was sufficiently self-possessed to be recruited for nursery chores .
15 The empowerment strategies of Japanese enterprises have been identified in a generalized commitment to ‘ learning by doing ’ ( Kenney and Florida 1988 : 133–5 ) .
16 A rather different view of endogenous technical advance sees it as the product of experience or ‘ learning by doing ’ ( Arrow , 1962 ) .
17 Being caught up within the clinical culture , learning by immersion , and absorbing the practice and principles of the firm may seem to leave the educational process to chance but all respondents pleaded that any changes in the preregistration year should not depreciate or downgrade the contribution of apprenticeship to the training process .
18 Learning by induction , the student experiences a mental process in which he observes many particular instances and then makes a general rule ( a generalisation ) incorporating the truth of the fact observed .
19 Although almost all of them enjoyed supervising house officers , they admitted that there was little formal teaching ( as opposed to learning by apprenticeship ) and that they had not been trained to provide such teaching .
20 Learning by root
21 Classical conditioning is a form of learning by association .
22 Pattern practice makes grammatical explanations superfluous and encourages learning by analogy .
23 Really , though , learning to construct good ads is a question of looking at ads , analysing what makes them work , and learning by example : it is observation , experience and practice .
24 A feature of the grammar translation method ; learning by deduction the student starts with a general truth and applies it to particular cases .
25 Contrast with learning by deduction .
26 Kpelle education , for instance , is largely non-verbal , the child learning by imitation .
27 Learning by imitation can take place in a few minutes , whereas the reproduction of a whole new adult animal can take many years .
28 Sometime in the early 1730s she encountered the poems of the thresher Stephen Duck [ q.v. ] , which she learned by heart .
29 Our Lord 's ministry was styled along the lines of the rabbinic model , with the itinerant teacher followed by a group of disciples who learned by listening , questioning and working under supervision .
30 ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’
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