~ learning can happen without the gained knowledge being verbalizable

implicit learning (learning complex information without complete verbalizable knowledge of what is learned)

❐ Implicit learning.

Hulstijn (2005) defines the distinction in learning as follows: Explicit learning is input processing with the conscious intention to find out whether the input information contains regularities and, if so, to work out the concepts and rules with which these regularities can be captured. Implicit learning is input processing without such an intention, taking place unconsciously.

Bill VanPatten-Theories in Second Language Acquisition