TELL Glossary

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AFL: Noun; Assesment for Language.
AFL: Noun; Assesment for Learning.
Apps: Noun; An application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device.
Audio-lingual: Noun; Involving a drill routine of listening and speaking in language learning.
Authoring Software: Noun; Software that allows its user to create multimedia applications for manipulating multimedia objects.
Blog: Noun; Website that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks, videos, and photographs provided by the writer.
CALL: Noun; Computer Assisted Language.
CLT: Noun; Communicative Language Teaching.
Communicative Competence: Noun; The tacit knowledge of a language and the ability to use it effectively.
Communities of Practice: Noun; Group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals.
Connectivism: Noun; Integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
Consoles: Noun; Computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
Cyberbole: Noun; Exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.
Flaming: Noun; Posting to a newsgroup, mailing list, or similar forum that attacks another person or group of people, usually in response to an earlier posting.1
Grammar-translation: Noun; Traditional technique of foreign-language teaching based on explicit instruction in the grammatical analysis of the target language and translation of sentences from the native language into the target language and vice versa.
Hardware: Noun; Physical parts of a computer and related devices.
ICT: Noun; Information and Communication Technologies.
Input: Noun; Something entered into a machine or other system, the act of entering data or other information, or input can also describe giving one's help, advice or thoughts.
Instant Messaging: Noun; Form of text-based communication in which two persons participate in a single conversation over their computers or mobile devices within an Internet-based chatroom.
Laptop: Noun; Computer that is portable and suitable for use while travelling.
More Able Peer: Noun; Young people who are achieving, or have the potential to achieve, at a level significantly beyond that of their peer group within a specific area of the curriculum.
Multimedia: Noun; Computer programs and products which involve sound, pictures, and film, as well as text.
Phonology: Noun; The system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language.
Privacy Settings: Noun; Controls available on many websites and apps to limit who can access your profile and what information visitors can see.
Rhizomatic Knowledge: Noun; Theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.
Social Media: Noun; Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Social Networking: Noun; Website that allows people with similar interests to come together and share information, photos and videos.
Social-constructivism: Noun; A social group constructing things for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artefacts with shared meanings
Social-digital Competence: Noun; Confident and critical use of Information Society Technology (IST) for work, leisure. and communication.
Socio-cultural Theories: Noun; Describes learning as a social process and the origination of human intelligence in society or culture.
TACS: Noun; Tecnologías del aprendizaje y el conocimiento.
Text Messaging: Noun; Act of sending short, alphanumeric communications between cellphones, pagers or other hand-held devices, as implemented by a wireless carrier.
Zone of proximal development: Noun; The space between what a learner can do without assistance and what a learner can do with adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.