Language of Learning (LANOL)

From a learners’ view (ALV), a language of learning (LANOL) exists that describes the point of contact between a teacher’s lesson and what a learner does while learning that lesson. Experimental behavioral and social scientists created  the vocabulary and language in bits and pieces to describe their procedures and results across venues that included classrooms. LANOL describes the micro-social economic transactions between the teacher and learner as an observable, manageable, and measurable process without reference to other explanations. Application of LANOL features choices that teachers make as they attempt to match choices learners will likely make while learning. These choices account for the distribution of trial-and-errors learners make in unsuccessful attempts to learn lessons. LANOL refines the common rhetoric used by classroom teachers to plan, instruct, and assess the value of their lessons for learning from them, the oxygen of social life. Content of this initial draft was adapted from research reports by Siegfried Engelmann, Bernard Farber, Marc Gold, David L. Harvey, George Homans, Betty House, Samuel A. Kirk, Ogden Lindsley, B.F. Skinner, David Zeaman, as well as their teams and students.