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didactically

didactically

7.6
In a way that aims to teach or explain something
  • adverb
  • /ˌdaɪdækˈtɪkli/
  • Formal
translation icon : didácticamente
  • In his studies of the film, Erikson (1978; Erikson, Erikson, and Kivnick, 1986) follows the day's remembered events closely and uses the eight stages didactically, believing, as he does, in the representative meaning of Bergman's story.

Examples

  • Large photographs and text panels mounted above cases attempted to evoke rather than didactically contextualize the cultural groups on display.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Van Heurne defended his purchases to the university's administration, arguing that they served to teach students and decorate the amphitheater, though it is unclear how exactly they were employed didactically.

    Academic text (2013)
  • "The Indian past existed," he didactically reminds us,

    Academic text (2004)
  • Without at least some sense of the complicated dynamic involving race, gender, and nationalism in the Caribbean, her story will be difficult to understand; she suggests that dynamic not didactically, but through image and at the very beginning of the narrative.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Third, the degree to which the academic establishment ignores these studies regarding the effects of formal, didactically oriented educational programs amounts to a kind of conspiracy of silence.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Instead of the traditional rote learning of declarative information in a lecture format in which moral training was didactically constructed, the Ministry suggested that teachers needed to foster students' "lan vital and will to learn, think, and act on their own" (Foreign Press Center 2001).

    Academic text (2004)
  • The teacher explained the concept didactically, ensuring that every student understood the lesson.

  • During the seminar, the speaker spoke didactically, emphasizing the importance of ethics in business education.

  • The novel conveys its themes didactically, aiming to impart moral lessons to its readers.

Synonyms

pedagogically
vsdidactically
  • Formal
1 7.5

In a way that helps students learn using good teaching methods

leans toward teaching with a clear moral or lesson emphasis
instructionally
vsdidactically
  • Formal
6.0

In a way that helps people learn

often aims to teach with a clear moral or lesson emphasis

How Didactic

didactically
  • Formal
7.6

Surface Forms

didactically positive
didacticallyer comparative
didacticallyest superlative

Morphology

didactically = didactic (transparent) = didactic + ly

The adverb is formed regularly from the adjective 'didactic' with the suffix '-ly', so the meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Didactically comes from the Greek root didaktikos, which means 'to teach' and is the same idea as the simple English word teach. So, to act didactically is to behave like a teacher, giving clear lessons or moral guidance.