This one and those ones

Posted by pakguru on September 13th, 2017 | 0 comments | avoiding repetition, coherence and cohesion, Indo English, referencing, substitution, vocabulary, yang

Teachers should shift from individual learning to collaborative one.

 Here an Indonesian student is translating ‘yang‘ as a substitute for a noun, but running into trouble because ‘learning‘ is uncountable.
This is easy to solve by converting ‘individual learning‘ into a countable noun:

• Teachers should shift from an individual learning style to a collaborative one.

Notice, too that the same kind of translation is possible with plural count nouns:

• Collaborative tasks are better than individual ones.

However, this is rather informal and is used more in speaking than in writing.