Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Apr 2021)
UPDATING THE SYNONYMS OF THE TERM “TEACHER” IN THE VOCABULARY OF MODERN ENGLISH (FROM MISSIONER TO ZOOM TUTOR)
Abstract
The term “teacher” is a nuclear component of the concept “education” in many languages of the world. In the context of globalization and internationalization of the education system, rapid changes take place in the field of information technology, new scientific knowledge and realities appear that require their own special nomination. Each innovation is accompanied by the emergence and consolidation of new terms in the language and speech. New functions and tasks of modern teachers are quite explainable, responding to the challenges of the society, characterized by increasing digitalization and new conditions of the social environment, intensive technological changes in all spheres of life, including education. It is no coincidence that an ordinary schoolteacher becomes a zoom tutor, an online tutor or a Skype tutor, who teaches using various online information platforms. The synonymic set of the term “teacher” is expanded and updated in parallel with the emergence of new functions of the teacher and varieties of pedagogical activity in which he is included. The article analyses the synonymic set of the term “teacher” on the examples of English dictionaries, thesauruses and glossaries. A semantic and comparative analysis of the synonyms for the term “teacher” is carried out to identify new lexical units with the connotation “teacher / university lecturer”.
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