0 to get or produce something, especially information or a reaction: --
In this teaching practice, teachers elicit and build on their students' mathematical insights.
The teacher elicits definitions from the students.
The questionnaire was intended to elicit information on eating habits.
1 to obtain something, esp. information or a reaction: --
The possibilities of rationalization and acquiescence exist when self-reports of personal feelings are elicited by an interviewer or selfcompletion questionnaire.
The conference elicited a number of distinguished papers, and the proceedings will soon be published.
Spontaneous interaction and elicited production are clearly separated.
But there are also welldocumented violations of procedure invariance, where choices are affected by the way in which preferences over the options are elicited.
Effective questioning must be one of the most important ways of eliciting a contribution from students, whether verbal or practical.
Since we wanted to elicit maximal performance from the foreign learners, we focused on the written modality.
This dialogue should enable them to readily understand what the system wants to elicit.
She only produced 221 spontaneous utterances across the three contexts used to elicit language samples, during which she produced the verbs forget and know spontaneously.