mentoring
指導
解説 Definition
mentoring は mentor（指導する、助言する）の現在分詞・動名詞で、経験のある人が助言や支援を行うことを意味します。単なる授業よりも、成長を助ける継続的な指導や相談に使われることが多いです。
Mentoring is the continuing process in which a more experienced person gives guidance, advice, encouragement, and practical support to someone less experienced. It commonly aims to help the other person develop skills, confidence, judgment, or a career over time.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 mentor に -ing を付けた形で、綴りはそのまま mentoring、発音も原形の後に /ɪŋ/ を加える。動名詞では「経験者による継続的な助言・支援」を表す。offer mentoring「指導制度を提供する」、through mentoring「指導を通じて」と覚え、知識を一度教える teaching より成長支援に重点があると捉える。
Mentoring is formed simply by adding -ing to the base verb mentor; no letter is dropped or doubled. As a gerund, it names an ongoing relationship in which an experienced person supports another person’s development through advice, feedback, encouragement, and shared experience. Remember common patterns such as offer mentoring, a mentoring program, and through mentoring. Unlike a single lesson, mentoring usually continues over time and often includes career or personal guidance as well as technical instruction. The form can also be a present participle, as in She is mentoring a new employee.
例文
Mentoring helped the new staff learn faster.
指導のおかげで、新しいスタッフはより早く仕事を覚えました。
The company offers mentoring for young engineers.
その会社は若手エンジニア向けに指導制度を提供しています。
Through mentoring, she learned how to plan her career with more confidence.
指導を通じて、彼女はより自信を持ってキャリアを計画する方法を学びました。
mentoring の類義語・関連語
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mentoring の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ギリシャ神話でオデュッセウスが息子テレマコスの教育を託した賢者メントール（Mentōr）が語源。ギリシャ語 menos（精神・意志）に行為者接尾辞 -tor が付いた名前。関連語: mentor, mental。神話の「導き手」が転じて指導・助言の意味になった。
Mentoring is the -ing form of mentor. The word mentor comes from Mentor, a character in Homer’s Odyssey who was entrusted with the care of Odysseus’s son Telemachus; the goddess Athena also appeared in his form to provide guidance. The personal name later became a common noun for a trusted adviser and then a verb. Adding -ing produces mentoring, the action or continuing practice of giving such guidance.
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