ample: The teaching pedagogies explored in this article represent best practices in second languages classrooms. The pedagogical implications of the strategies discussed should influence teaching approaches across the language arts.
The authors of this paper should have written, “The pedagogies explored…” and the second sentence is an example of trying too hard to sound authoritative.
polysemous - a fancy way of saying a word or phrase has several meanings.
postcolonial - (buzzword)
postmodern - (buzzword) seldom used with clarity, now meaningless. Suffers the same fate as “existential angst.”
post-postmodern - We are not sure what was meant by this, but we have seen this in print.
problematize / problematization / problemize -
public - sometimes used superfluously in academic phrases. Example: public culture (as if culture isn’t public).
queer [quare | kuaer] theory -
reappropriate / reappropriations -
reconceptualize / reconceptualizationing - among the many ways of saying “rethink” in academic papers, reconceptualizationing might be the longest. Some advice: Any word with more than one prefix and more than one suffix is not a common word.
rearchitect / repurpose / reimagine / rethink / reimaginings -
social construction - (buzzword)
structuralist / structuration -
symbolic interactionism - an academic way to state that the mind and body each have an effect on each other. Credit (blame) the Chicago School of Interactionists for this phrase.
technologizing - to make something natural seem technical or mechanical.
territorialization - (1) staking a claim on a concept or field of study. (2) thinking of a space, real or virtual, in terms of a territory to settle.
transdisciplinary - see interdisciplinary
transnational - across national borders or global. Be more specific and use common terms: use “global” or “multinational” when possible.
unproblematizes - (buzzword) explains.
webify / Webify - (buzzword) to find connections between concepts. The capitalized version apparently refers to making conceptual connections online, using the World Wide Web. Other texts use the term to mean Web-ready content.
zeugma - (misused) from grammar, a zeugma is when one word modifies two others, often in two different meanings. We have seen the term misused to mean a complex situtation, with both good and bad potentials. A proper example is:
Both his stock holdings and his yacht sank in the same horrible week.