language learners
Picking up speech
Language learners are people actively studying a language that isn't their native tongue.
The term appears frequently in educational contexts: This dictionary is designed for language learners, language learner strategies.
It emphasizes the ongoing process of acquisition rather than proficiency level—beginners and advanced students alike qualify as language learners.
- immersionState of being submerged
- study abroadAttend university overseas
- memory retentionCapacity to preserve learned information
- grammar drillsRepetitive syntax practice activities
- error correctionFixing identified mistakes
spaced repetition · flash cards · vocabulary building · bilingual books · study groups · cross-cultural communication · academic achievement · conversation practice · pattern recognition · online courses · bilinguals · morphology · bilingual communities · grammar · peer feedback · plateau effect · pronunciation · fluency
- language educationbilingual, biliteracy, immersion, literacy skills, reading
- Poloniadisplaced persons, World War II refugees, economic migrants, chain migration, family reunification
- language groupsMandarin speakers, heritage speakers, bilingual communities, bilinguals, bilingual community
- Americans abroadexpats, expatriates, tourists, study abroad, American writers
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- fitness peoplegym rats, fitness buffs, bodybuilders, weightlifters, weight lifters