noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
learning
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Science courses usually have fewer experiments and more rote learning .
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The result is that many have to rely heavily on rote learning and memory, with limited understanding.
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Readers who rely heavily on conventional visual rote learning may adjust more slowly.
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Teaching standards are very poor - lots of rote learning and copying notes from the blackboard.
■ VERB
learn
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Facts to be learned by rote are often best assimilated just before bedtime, when you get up or when walking.
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There is too little food or warmth; learning is by rote , and students make their own clothes.
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Much emphasis is placed these days on understanding and applying standard practice rather than simply learning it by rote .
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If you have a good memory, you can learn by rote .
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Children learn it by rote to pass examinations, and they don't see its relevance to the world around them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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rote memorization
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Simon's concert was rote and uninspired.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And is rote learning necessarily in opposition to discovery learning?
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I know that many teachers of the present day think that learning by rote is archaic.
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If you have a good memory, you can learn by rote .
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Margaret used to be a great one for rote learning.
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Others recite complex speeches by rote that sound all too familiar, and collapse at the slightest interruption.
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Science courses usually have fewer experiments and more rote learning.
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The litany of inequities is so familiar to her now that she recites by rote .
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There is too little food or warmth; learning is by rote , and students make their own clothes.