languistics

Noun

languistics (uncountable)

1. A proposed subfield of linguistics which focuses on language learning.
   • This new field of activity—once it is clearly marked out and acknowledged—will need to be identified by a new name. We propose to call it languistics, and to call the person who is trained in this field a languist. […] Languistics will continue to find in words the present state and past history of...1960, Nelson H. Brooks, Language and Language Learning: Theory and Practice, New York, N.Y.; San Diego, C.A.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., pages 174–176
   • To be a science, languistics will have to break with much of the past, to develop its own theory and to apply it according to its own principles and procedures.1982, Hector Hammerly, Synthesis in Second Language Teaching: An Introduction to Languistics (Series in Linguistics; 1), Blaine, W.A.; North Burnaby, B.C.: Second Language Publications, →ISBN, page 22