"learner" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who is learning something, for example: "The learner worked hard to master the new skill."
"A learner like Luke Foley fluking an election win with local protest votes after just one term out of office would bring NSW to a screeching halt".
Ronda Zelezny-Green, PhD researcher in girls' education, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK. @GLaM_Leo Ronda is a language educator, teacher trainer, consultant, researcher and learner and an expert in gender, learning and mobiles, and advocates participatory and sustainable approaches to the use of mobiles for educational purposes.
Now, Uncle Rupes is a quick learner – witness how he revolutionised the British press by relaunching the Sun as a tabloid in 1969 – so I'm sure he'll take to Twitter like a slightly dastardly duck to water.
But many westerners consider him clumsy rather than sinister, and a quick learner of the facts of international life.This assessment may understate the risks of a Lebed presidency.
This means that, a good accent, rhythm and grammar notwithstanding, the intermediate-to-advanced learner is likely to flail discussing the value-added tax, running style or camera lenses.Your columnist knows from experience: I have flailed on all of the above in languages I would otherwise say I had spoken well for years.
This kind of thing can only make the learner shake his head: isn't French grammar complicated enough already, to say nothing of French amours?
Each language challenges the learner with something unique.
"She is a quick learner," says one well-placed official.
It is widely said in Caracas that Mr Chavez is a great communicator, a quick learner, a good listener, and a pragmatic realist.
A previous study has suggested that grammar-learning ability falls off smoothly (not suddenly, after the critical period) depending on the age at which the learner begins learning.
