Sentence examples for in favour of learning from inspiring English sources

Daydreaming in favour of learning at school should not usually be encouraged, yet had a very tempting advocate in Louise.

Calamity Jane, one of the Old West's most celebrated female figures, has been played by a whole bevy of actresses, including Jean Arthur, Ellen Barkin and, most famously, Doris Day in the 1953 musical, which sidelines the character's boozing and fighting in favour of learning to be more feminine so she can devote herself to wholesome romance with Wild Bill Hickok.

Thankfully though, future-minded officials in South Korea have given cause for this correspondent to write about something altogether different: by 2015, all of the country's dead-tree textbooks will be phased out, in favour of learning materials carried on tablet computers and other devices.The cost of setting up the network will be $2.1 billion.

They also abandoned learning material they believed was relevant to patient care in favour of learning material they believed was irrelevant to patient care but relevant to achieving success in the upcoming assessment.

A strong argument in favour of these learning effects related to dyslexia is that cerebellar findings seem to depend on the age of the subjects.

Japan's state education system is often criticised for quashing original thought among pupils in favour of rote learning, and for placing an emphasis on theory rather than practical skills, especially when it comes to English.

A meta-analysis found large effect sizes in favour of errorless learning (d = 0.87, p = 0.008) [ 18].

Any effective study plan needs to include answering questions with the information you've revised, but often we're tempted to leave that out in favour of focusing on learning the information in the first place.

Welcome to the school which has ditched traditional classrooms in favour of open-plan learning.

The school with no classrooms Jump to media player In Finland schools are increasingly ditching traditional classrooms in favour of open-plan learning.

In addition, although beliefs in the literature about persuasive effects appear to be consistently in favour of narratives, for learning outcomes there are also suggestions in favour of using non-narrative texts [ 16, 17].