Is this a correct usage of the word "recurring"?

Question

After a month's attendance, I noticed how the teacher used a recurring approach to introduce some of the key words.

I'm trying to convey that the teacher used this particular method repeatedly across her lessons, is "recurring" a suitable word?

Answer 1

No recurring is definitely not the word you are looking for...

i think the a semi-official term is "repetitive method"

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100414691

Answer 2

Your phrase implies that the approach, even if taken only once, was in some way recurrent. Instead I understand that all you want to say is that the teacher repeatedly used the same method.

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More natural would be ...used a consistent approach. – FumbleFingers 2 hours ago

Shameless reputation stealing from comment answers is very much encouraged by the rules. However, I'm personally a bit puzzled by the missing semantic link from "to consist", and I assume it's closer to insist, resist (hesitate? As a second language learner I often said ?hesistant, but always fumbled when forming the verb).

I suppose consistent in this sense originally meant fitting, selected to fit, joined, if the German nouns Konsistenz ^[1] ~ Zusammensetzung ^[2] are any indication: zusammensetzen means "set together, assemble, sit together"; also cp concept, conceptual, conceived.

After all, the that's saying more than is intended. But it is undeniably idiomatic as it goes.

_{1: Konsitenz - the structure of a thing, e.g. of food, which may be creamy, chewy, gnarly, chunky, ... One might say my answer lacks any Konsistenz, because it runs like liquid through a sieve.}

_{2: Zusammensetzung - "consistency, composition, structure"; not to be confused with Zusammensellung "composition, compilation".}

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I have to refer back to your phrase, because, in fact, learning thrives in recurrence. In some sense, a recurrent method makes sense. At first, introduction seems to be a one-shot that can't be repeated, or divided. However, teaching also involves teaching the methods, not just the results (give a man a fish and he will be fine for a day, teach him to fish and he will be fine for much longer).

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My above allusion to togetherness, assemblage, collection fits also in the sense that assemble as well as Ger zusammen, sammeln mightbreflect PIE *sem- "together; one"; assemble as well as sammeln also mean "to collected", so a sense of selected becomes apparent. However, drawing from German einheitlich, which describes a consistently applied method, akin to Einheit "unit" (ein- is "one; a, an"), then consider all of dict.cc's translations, some of which fit better than others:

    consistent {adj}
coherent {adj} [consistent]     
uniform {adj}       
unified {adj}   
homogeneous {adj}   
unitary {adj}   
uniformly {adv} [unvaryingly]   
consistently {adv} [uniformly]  
even {adj}  
integrative {adj}   
single {adj} [unitary]  
standardized {adj}  
standardised {adj} [Br.]    
*lawspec.* unital {adj} 
unitarily {adv}