instructional

adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,074 of 15,258mostly written

Instructional means meant to teach somebody how to do something. An instructional video, instructional design, instructional materials.

Instructional design is a real profession about how learning is structured rather than what is taught. The word is about purpose, so an instructional video may be dreadful and still be instructional.

Definitions of instructional

1adjectiveinstructionalMeant to teach somebody how to do something.B2+
“The museum offers instructional workshops on pottery for complete beginners.”

instructional is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin
īnstrūctiō
Old French
instruccion
Middle English
instruccioun
English
instruction
English, today
instructional

From instruction + -al. instruction comes from Middle English instruccioun, from Old French instruccion, from Latin īnstrūctiō. From Middle English instruccioun, from Old French instruccion, from Latin instructio; equivalent to instruct + ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

instructional in the wild

Learning theories also play an important role in the design of instructional materials.
Instructional design
Educational television programs on instructional television may be less than one half hour long to help their integration into the classroom setting.
Instructional television
Currently, over 300,000 hours of the Navy's instructional materials exist using the AIM system.
Authoring Instructional Materials
AIM II stores training content on a SQL server, serving as a relational database for managing the relationships between instructional material elements.
Authoring Instructional Materials

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Related words

the īnstrūctiō family

instruction

instructional — used about once every 18,318 pages · #13,074 · point at the bar for the others

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