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languaging

languaging

8.4
Using words to think, talk, and learn with others
  • noun
  • /ˈlæŋɡwədʒɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : uso del lenguaje
  • The workshop focused on languaging as a key factor in effective communication and collaborative learning.
  • languaging process

Like what feels right to you in terms of the context, the languaging, the, you know, do you teach a yoga class where people chant ohm or do they, you know, think they're stretching?

Examples

  • Teachers often emphasize the importance of languaging in helping students articulate their thoughts clearly.

  • Just as we cannot separate mind and body, we also cannot effectively separate doing and languaging.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Languaging seems to require a high degree of transparency to work well socially.

    Academic text (2006)
  • In the spirit of those days, I'd like to combine some sentences from their book The Tree of Knowledge with a reading of an old world folk tale about languaging.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Phenomenologically, then, the human sampling of God's creative potency occurs as an experiential understanding of the languaging process as one of creative potency.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Any other part of deictic space-time may also differ from English, although the immediate, present context of the languaging itself will always be the anchor, the grounding.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Narrative counseling is a multiculturally sensitive approach rooted in social constructionism, a philosophical perspective that sees problems as constructed through people's languaging of social, cultural, and political influences (Monk, 1997; Semmler & Williams, 2000).

    Academic text (2013)
  • During the class, they engaged in languaging to better understand complex concepts through discussion.

Synonyms

talking
vslanguaging
504 1.0

An activity of sharing ideas or information by speaking to someone

is active use across different language modes for communication and learning
linguistic process
vslanguaging
  • Specialized
7.0

A mental activity people use to understand, produce, or learn language

emphasizes active external use for communication and learning rather than internal operations

Antonyms

A lack of talking or sharing information between people

How Active

immersion
11 5.4
languaging
  • Specialized
8.4
practice
585 1.6
listening
68 1.0
exposure
295 3.5

Surface Forms

languaging singular
languagings plural

Morphology

languaging = language (semi-transparent) = language + ing

The word is formed regularly from the verb 'language' plus '-ing', but the verb itself is a relatively specialized and recent formation, so the meaning is not fully automatic for all learners.

Etymology

Languaging comes from language, which comes from the Latin word lingua 'tongue'. Think of it as 'using the tongue' to make meaning, so languaging is the process of actively using language to communicate and learn.