And the word of the day is...

...dubitative

It means means using a modal verb that indicates "showing doubt about whether an event will occur" (LING550 lecture notes): You might make it on time

The other modals also have fun words:

Obligative = must (you must pay the rent)
Permissive = may (you may be excused)
Abilitative = can (but I can't pay the rent!)

In prescriptive grammar, "can" would always be abilitative, I suppose, but in descriptive grammar "can" can be used for permissive moods

Hey, wait a minute... "I'll pay the rent!"

Were does something like shall/will come into this?  That's not in my notes...

Praxis

An article by Cooke, which looked like it would have promising things about teaching students to learn autonomously from a library perspective, tuned out to be about how adult learners are usually already autonomous and librarians need to understand androgogy in order to best teach them.

I was exited to find it, as I like the word androgogy and thought it might actually be talking about the thing I'm trying to research, but as it turned out it wasn't about teaching autonomous learning skills after all.  Bummer.

On the other hand, it did use the word "praxis" in regards to reflective learning:  "praxis ... is a process of learning and reflecting on what was learned by repetition, revising or recreation" (Cooke, 2010, p.222).

I like it.  It fits neatly with my "before, during and after" approach to teaching autonomous learning skills.  I must find a way to use it in a guide or something...

It's kind of what I do here, from time to time, with posts like this - recreating the information in order to make it more memorable for me.  It probably bores the sox of everyone else, but that's the price we have to pay.