Others believe that explicit teaching or learning of language structure is unnecessary.

Meanwhile, at the University of Illinois, there was a study that investigated the effects of the explicit teaching of learning strategies to language learners.

Untaught and unconscious: Speakers apply these rules without being aware of it, and they acquire the rules early in life without any explicit teaching.

These were meant to be completely explicit teachings in their entire detail, for which interpretations would not be necessary, and controversy would not occur.

The manuscript was also found among explicit gnostic teachings in the Nag Hammadi Library.

He also recommends the teaching of such skills as segmenting and blending alongside the "explicit teaching" of letter sounds.

One issue is the effectiveness of explicit teaching: can language teaching have a constructive effect beyond providing learners with enhanced input?

Traditional areas of explicit teaching, such as phonology, grammar and vocabulary, have had decidedly mixed results.

In cases such as these, explicit teaching of the linguistic rules may be sufficient.

This wrongly implies that progressive education discourages the explicit teaching of written-language conventions.