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Accelerate comes from the Latin words ad meaning “toward” and celer meaning “fast” or “rapid.” Therefore, accelerated learning is learning which occurs at a more rapid rate. Today, the umbrella term acceleration is more often used to cover all accelerated learning. Accelerative learning includes a particular strategy popular in language teaching at the end of the last century. Suggestive accelerative learning and teaching (SALT) was described as using the learner as a resource to increase the rate of learning. Grade-skipping (USA) or full-year acceleration (UK) is the practice of accelerating a student by moving them a full year (or more) ahead of their chronological age-peers. Radical acceleration is where a student is accelerated more than 2 years ahead of age-peers. Telescopingis the shortening of a course of...
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Wardman, J. (2012). Accelerated Learning. In: Seel, N.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_425
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