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  2. Knowledge production modes - Wikipedia

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    A knowledge production mode is a term from the sociology of science which refers to the way (scientific) knowledge is produced. So far, three modes have been conceptualized. Mode 1 production of knowledge is knowledge production motivated by scientific knowledge alone (basic research) which is not primarily concerned by the applicability of its finding

  3. Vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Within the receptiveproductive distinction lies a range of abilities that are often referred to as degree of knowledge. This simply indicates that a word gradually enters a person's vocabulary over a period of time as more aspects of word knowledge are learnt. Roughly, these stages could be described as: Never encountered the word.

  4. Language development - Wikipedia

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    Usually, productive/expressive language is considered to begin with a stage of pre-verbal communication in which infants use gestures and vocalizations to make their intents known to others. According to a general principle of development, new forms then take over old functions, so that children learn words to express the same communicative ...

  5. Second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Researchers working within frameworks such as skill-based theories of second-language acquisition or Richard Schmidt's noticing hypothesis have found evidence for a greater value of explicit knowledge, awareness, and conscious noticing of features of the target language as a potential basis for implicit knowledge than what Krashen's theory assumes.

  6. Cognition - Wikipedia

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    A cognitive model, as illustrated by Robert Fludd (1619) [1]. Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". [2]

  7. Definitions of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    [6] [1] A different approach, sometimes termed "knowledge first", upholds the difference between belief and knowledge based on the idea that knowledge is unanalyzable and therefore cannot be understood in terms of the elements that compose it. But opponents of this view may simply reject it by denying that knowledge is unanalyzable. [1]

  8. Language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Language can be vocalized as in speech, or manual as in sign. [1] Human language capacity is represented in the brain. Even though human language capacity is finite, one can say and understand an infinite number of sentences, which is based on a syntactic principle called recursion. Evidence suggests that every individual has three recursive ...

  9. Constructivism (philosophy of education) - Wikipedia

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    Constructivism in education is rooted in epistemology, a theory of knowledge concerned with the logical categories of knowledge and its justification. [3] It acknowledges that learners bring prior knowledge and experiences shaped by their social and cultural environment and that learning is a process of students "constructing" knowledge based on their experiences.