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noninstruction

noninstruction noun: lack of instruction.

Noun

noninstruction (uncountable)

  1. Lack of instruction.
    • No comprehension instruction was observed for the social studies period. For the reading period, the teachers spent their greatest amount of time in "comprehension: assessment" (17.65%); next was "noninstruction" (10.72%); followed by "transition" (10.75%); […]1984, P. David Pearson, Rebecca Barr, Michael L. Kamil, Handbook of Reading Research, volume 2, page 940

Origin of noninstruction

From non- + instruction.

Questions about noninstruction

What does noninstruction mean?
Noninstruction means lack of instruction.
What part of speech is noninstruction?
Noninstruction is a noun.

Words near noninstruction in the dictionary

  1. noninstitutional
  2. noninstitutionalised
  3. noninstitutionalized
  4. noninstitutions
  5. noninstructed
  6. noninstruction
  7. noninstructional
  8. noninstructive
  9. noninstrumental
  10. noninstrumentalist
  11. noninstrumentalists

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