Conspicuous Conspicuous /kənˈspɪk.ju.əs/ (adj) easily noticeable, easily visible, attracting attention, obvious, exposed, on show, in the limelight, eye-catching, evident, prominent: John’s behavior towards his wife was so uncouth and unsavory that it became quite conspicuous for guests. It is all Greek to me that some try to be conspicuous and showy in every gathering in order to be the center of …
Heed Heed (noun & verb) /hiːd/ verb: to pay attention to a warning or advice – give serious attention to something, listen to, take note of, notice, attention, note, care, mindfulness: If you had heeded my advice, you wouldn’t have been in trouble now. Antonyms disregard, negligence Parts of speech Adjective: heedful Adjective: heedless Adverb: …
Noticing Hypothesis in second language learning Noticing Hypothesis Schmidt (1990) claimed that attention to input is a conscious process. He viewed noticing (i.e. registering formal features in the input) and noticing the gap (i.e. identifying how the input to which the learner is expected differs from the output the learner is able to generate) as …