Academic Coining
This past weekend I had the privilege of being in two places at the same time. Such is the wonder of online conferences that I could watch conference speeches presented by the University of Warwick in the UK, via Google Teams as well as listen to presentations at Westminster International University in Uzbekistan via Zoom. I might add that both these conferences were free to attend. Bonus!
As a linguist I especially enjoy the coining of new words as researchers extend the margins of their discipline and come up with the lexicon to describe it. This weekend I learned about "Edu-gogies" from Parveen Kumar , in his talk on gamification in ESL. Mark Carver spoke on "doctorateness", apparently a concept that has been around since 2018. I'm still wondering about whether teachers are "theory consumers" as explained by a presenter discussing her PhD research. I found myself wanting to know more about "pedagogic frailty" from a doctoral researcher, still working on her findings.
I'd love to know - what new words have you learned this year?
Director of Postgraduate Research and Lecturer in TESOL at the University of St Andrews, researcher on mquite.scot
10 个月Thanks for the mention - 'doctorateness' is an interesting coinage. Grammatically, 'doctoralness' seems to work better, but the concept grew out of work on 'graduateness', so imitated the form. I also like that academics took it from a quality control area into something more conceptual by distinguishing between doctorateness as synergy, output, or outcome.
Assistant Manager - Learning Technology at Higher Colleges of Technology
10 个月I find that I quite regularly discover a new word. I like to do cryptic crosswords and quite often there is a word that I am not familiar with in those. Often when I discover a new word I suddenly notice people using it, and I wonder how I managed to get through 60 years without knowing the word. The last new word that I remember was an old word, but new to me. I was doing my daily Wordle puzzle and I had got as far as RO?ER, I was struggling to think what the missing letter might be. I tried ROBER and was surprised it was accepted as a word. I looked it up and apparently, a ROBER is someone who helps a dignitary or official to put on their robes. Who knew? I didn't, I can't imagine I will have cause to use that word often though. ?
Director - Center for English Language and Communication | Professional Skills & EdTech Coach | Podcaster | 4 National Awards from Government of India | QS Reimagine Awards Grand Jury | PhD Candidate | Skillgogy Founder
10 个月Glad to see the coining being celebrated in ELT as well. Thank you for sharing the ‘doctrateness’ as well.