learnerlearn‧er /ˈlɜːnə $ ˈlɜːrnər/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
a new dictionary for learners of business English the needs of slow learners attractive grammar books for adult learners► see thesaurus at student2 (also learner driver) British English someone who is learning to drive a carCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + learnera slow learner (=someone who learns things slowly)· The computer program means that slow learners can practise as long as they need to.a quick/fast learner (=someone who learns things quickly)· She was a quick learner, and her English got better day by day.an adult learner· Many adult learners also work full-time.a young learner (=a learner who is a child)· The activities are good for young learners.an intermediate learner· These exercises are designed for intermediate learners.an advanced learner· Mastering idioms and phrasal verbs is frequently the greatest challenge facing the advanced learner of English.a foreign learner· Foreign learners of English often find it difficult to hear the unstressed parts of a word.a language learner· a textbook for language learnerslearner + NOUNa learner driver· Learner drivers often tend to grip the steering wheel too tightly.phrasesthe needs of the learner· The language in the coursebook is controlled to meet the needs of the learner.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A good teacher holds the learner's interest and stimulates them to find out more.
- A major aim of education is to improve learners' understanding of the world around them.
- At the end of each chapter there is a series of exercises designed to help the learner.
- James was a fast learner, and was soon better at tennis than his coach.
- You're a quick learner! It took me ages to get the hang of it.
THESAURUS
someone who is studying at a university or school. In British English, student is not usually used to refer to a child at primary school: · a student at Moscow University· How many students are there in your class?· The university has a lot of overseas students.· Most schools have special classes for students with learning difficulties.
especially British English someone who is being taught in a particular school or by a particular teacher: · The school has 300 pupils.· He received a letter from one of his former pupils.
a child who goes to school: · The play was performed by a group of local schoolchildren.
especially British English a boy or girl who goes to school – used especially when talking about how they behave, or that time in someone’s life: · They were behaving like naughty schoolgirls.· When he was a schoolboy, no one had heard of computers.· He blushed at her like a schoolboy.
someone who is learning a foreign language: · Learners often have problems with pronunciation.· a book for foreign learners of English
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who is learning something someone who is studying at a school, college, or university: · She's a student at Cornell University.· extra help for disabled students· He was accused of attacking a fellow student.· a farewell party for the overseas studentslaw/medical/engineering etc student: · Law students always have a lot of work to do.student nurse/teacher (=someone who is studying to be a nurse or a teacher): · What was the social life like when you were a student nurse?mature student British (=a student who is over the age of 25, and who has worked before coming to university or college): · We have a large number of mature students here, some with small children.
someone who is learning a skill while working in a company or organization: · The new class of trainees was highly motivated.· I started out as a trainee on the trading floor, earning around $25,000 a year.trainee accountant/reporter/salesman etc: · I got a job as a trainee reporter on the 'Daily Star'.· He spent three years as a trainee manager before getting his present position.
someone who has recently started to learn something: · Japanese classes for beginners· The tennis club welcomes beginners as well as more advanced players.· As a beginner, she needs quite a lot of encouragement.
someone who is learning all the skills that they need in order to do a job, especially a job that they do with their hands: · When I finish classes, I'm hoping to land a summer job as a chef's apprentice.apprentice electrician/bricklayer/hairdresser etc: · I worked as an apprentice electrician for 18 months.
someone who is learning a particular subject or skill, especially a foreign language and usually in a school: · A good teacher holds the learner's interest and stimulates them to find out more.slow/fast/quick learner: · James was a fast learner, and was soon better at tennis than his coach.· You're a quick learner! It took me ages to get the hang of it.
a student someone who is studying at school, university etc: · We would welcome suggestions from both teachers and students.· Student leaders had organized a sit-in to protest against the war.high school/college etc student: · The study found that drug use among high school students is rising.English/engineering/business etc student: · Seventy percent of the university's business students have job offers by graduation.student of: · Wiggins was a student of theology for many years before leaving the seminary.student days (=the time when you were a student): · Mira hadn't seen Brad since their student days at the University of Wisconsin.
especially British a child who studies at a school: · The school has over 700 pupils.· The new law reduces the number of pupils per class in the first four years of schooling.
someone who is learning about a particular subject - used especially by teachers and people talking about the needs of students: · A major aim of education is to improve learners' understanding of the world around them.· At the end of each chapter there is a series of exercises designed to help the learner.
especially British a child who studies at a school: · He was quickly surrounded by schoolgirls asking for his autograph.· Only 10% of British schoolchildren attend private schools.
informal a child who studies at a school: · I was just a schoolkid - I didn't know anything about poetry or literature.· They were standing outside giggling away like a couple of naughty schoolkids.
someone who is studying at a university in order to get their first degree: · They met when they were undergraduates at Cambridge.· The loans, which are based on financial need, are limited to $3000 for undergraduates.
American someone who is studying English, history etc as their main subject at a college or university: · Her boyfriend was a political science major at Berkeley.· I was a biology major in college, but I've forgotten almost everything I learned.
British /graduate student American someone who is studying for a higher degree after their first degree: · About half the graduate students in the program come from overseas.· He has three postgraduates helping him with his research.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + learner She’s a quick learner.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(=someone who learns things slowly)· The computer program means that slow learners can practise as long as they need to.
(=someone who learns things quickly)· She was a quick learner, and her English got better day by day.
· Many adult learners also work full-time.
(=a learner who is a child)· The activities are good for young learners.
· These exercises are designed for intermediate learners.
· Mastering idioms and phrasal verbs is frequently the greatest challenge facing the advanced learner of English.
· Foreign learners of English often find it difficult to hear the unstressed parts of a word.
· a textbook for language learners
learner + NOUN· Learner drivers often tend to grip the steering wheel too tightly.
phrases· The language in the coursebook is controlled to meet the needs of the learner.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=who is learning to drive)· Learner drivers spend a lot of money on driving lessons.
· Language learners often have problems with tenses.
She’s a quick learner.· The problem with adult learners is that they already have strategies for grammatical analysis and can efficiently use context in communication.· The unit-based certificate is seen as appropriate for adult learners.· The objective of the Resource Book is to allow your adult learners to pursue their studies in their own time.
· Richard is a fast learner and shrewd observer.· But we were fast learners and creative.
· Cassette has speakers in a variety of professional fields talking without concessions to foreign learners.· Some foreign learners also have trouble with their aitches.· Not surprisingly, dead metaphors as a rule present fewer problems to foreign learners of a language than idioms do.· They pose problems to foreign language learners and native speaker learners alike.
· The senior nurse may also allocate time for individual teaching of learners, or for group tutorial sessions.· The first priority was the addition of supplemental and enriching instructional resources for the individual special learner.· A library is an organization of recorded knowledge for the autonomous individual learner.· Are they reflective of individual learner needs and individual levels of mental and physical development?· Programmed texts can not replace the teacher, but do enable her to give more individual assistance to learners.
· She was strong, nimble, and a quick learner.· Not only are leaders learners, but they are quick learners and they enjoy learning.· A quick learner and a creative entrepreneur, he was continually dreaming up new schemes to promote and enlarge the business.
· Eventual guaranteed success is often a very desirable aspect, especially for young or slow learners.· By portraying herself as a slow learner, Wong affords her reader a superior and even a smug position.· Actually he majored in Phys Ed, but to tell you the truth, Rickie was always a slow learner.· What a slow learner I am!· He introduced a quite different strand: I was a slow learner.· But jump rope is an activity for the slow and steady learner.· In Balbinder's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner.· Indeed, they were probably worried about why the baby was a slow learner.
· We must also see these settings as special communities of learners.· In dealing with the special learner, seeing the materials to be used is a necessity.· Not enough money to share among the special learners who have an equal right to education with every other child?· It helps a great deal to look at special learners first as children, and then as people needing special help.· Refining, narrowing, focusing, and applying are all words that are key to teaching the limited special learner.· These aspects are central to all program management, whether for special learners or not.· The intent is that the special learner be educated side by side with other children to the extent that this is possible.· But the idea of library media specialists teaching and providing library media services to special learners is scary all the same.
· In addition to subject-specific language needs, teachers need to be aware of the situation-specific linguistic demands made upon young learners in primary classrooms.· Both videos are sparkling situation comedies written especially for adult and young adult learners.· Eventual guaranteed success is often a very desirable aspect, especially for young or slow learners.· Grammar Grammar is a new series of four appealing grammar books for young learners.· The World Around Us Fascinating topics for young learners ranging from blood banks to deserts.· This provides young learners with the stimulus and movement necessary to hold their attention and keep them enthusiastically involved.
NOUN· Residents say too many learner drivers are taking lessons in their streets, and now they want the L-plates moved on.· Among excess alcohol offenders, 10% are learner drivers or riders and 11% drive whilst disqualified or have no driving licence.
· N.B. Languages and language learners are very idiosyncratic and what works for some may not work for others.· Foreign language learners need to enter into long stretches of communication, in real and complex situations.· The direct questions we needed to ask of deaf people could not be asked adequately, since we were only language learners.· The book is designed specifically with the needs of the language learner in mind.· Their value for a language learner is that they contain all kinds of examples of people communicating.· Obviously this would only apply to programmes which would be used by many language learners.· The language learner needs to be able to handle language which is not idealized - language in use.· Some language learners also find it easier to hear e.g. a word initial sound at a predictable point in a frame.
VERB· It allows learners to be creative within a carefully controlled language framework.· The objective of the Resource Book is to allow your adult learners to pursue their studies in their own time.
· In the interview, it is stressed that the informant should direct the discussion because the ethnographer becomes the learner.· In order for most of us to become self-motivated learners, we need to reach a certain level of success.· In the learning society, all adults become perpetual learners in a variety of situations and at a variety of sites.
· Whichever way word- processing is used it gives learners the means of refining text until it satisfies them.· Providing this atmosphere gives the learner the motivation to go ahead and to try to achieve still more.· Personnel other than ward staff will be involved, and the attention given to teaching learners may be small.· To give the learner visual, tactile and aural stimuli, which increase the learning experience.· When one gives the learner feedback on her ability these skills provide a framework for assessment.· Classroom instruction is invaluable in providing some of this background and in giving the learner confidence.· Recordings of different people talking give learners access to a wider range of voices and accents.· This gives learners guidance in their self-directed learning, and encourages a problem-solving approach to care.
· Secondly, the linking of form to function may help learners to orientate themselves within a discourse.· Such teaching helps the learner to sort out the facts an to make some judgments and decisions about them.· To help the learner, complex examples should be reduced to the essential characteristics and differences emphasised.· It must therefore help learners when they listen to a foreign language if they can see as well as hear what is going on.· But it might help your learners if they used some of your techniques for the first five or ten minutes of viewing.· And video's moving pictures also help learners concentrate because they provide a focus of attention while they listen.· A variety of comprehension exercise types help the learner to look for information and to recognize language forms.· This is thought to help learners become adaptable and autonomous people, able to engage in good thinking in practical contexts.
· Project Video stimulates active language use Project Video provides a stimulus for learners to produce their own projects.· The making of a video recording provides a goal for learners to work towards and this is a motivating factor.· In this way, teaching which provides for learner development serves the cause of teacher development at the same time.· This provides young learners with the stimulus and movement necessary to hold their attention and keep them enthusiastically involved.
· This method is less time-consuming as one teacher will be teaching several learners.· But there is a great deal more to teaching the special learner successfully than just having faith, hope, and courage.· Refining, narrowing, focusing, and applying are all words that are key to teaching the limited special learner.· Keeping this in mind will serve the library media specialist well when it comes to teaching the special learner.· Such teaching helps the learner to sort out the facts an to make some judgments and decisions about them.· The center took as an initial goal demonstrating the positive effect of good library media use in the teaching of special learners.· Understanding how to teach the mainstreamed special learner is of paramount concern to the teacher who must do it.· The center also helped school personnel to cope with state and federal mandates relative to identifying and teaching the special learner.
WORD FAMILYnounlearnerlearningunlearnadjectivelearnedverblearnadverblearnedly
1someone who is learning to do somethinglearner of a new dictionary for learners of business English the needs of slow learners attractive grammar books for adult learners► see thesaurus at student2 (also learner driver) British English someone who is learning to drive a carCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + learnera slow learner (=someone who learns things slowly)· The computer program means that slow learners can practise as long as they need to.a quick/fast learner (=someone who learns things quickly)· She was a quick learner, and her English got better day by day.an adult learner· Many adult learners also work full-time.a young learner (=a learner who is a child)· The activities are good for young learners.an intermediate learner· These exercises are designed for intermediate learners.an advanced learner· Mastering idioms and phrasal verbs is frequently the greatest challenge facing the advanced learner of English.a foreign learner· Foreign learners of English often find it difficult to hear the unstressed parts of a word.a language learner· a textbook for language learnerslearner + NOUNa learner driver· Learner drivers often tend to grip the steering wheel too tightly.phrasesthe needs of the learner· The language in the coursebook is controlled to meet the needs of the learner.