TELL glossary
TELL glossary
30 null terms
- Activity System
- noun
- Is a collective formation with a complex mediational structure that serves as the primary unit of analysis in cultural historical activity theory.
- AFL
- noun
- Assesment for learning
- Apps
- noun
- An application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device.
- Authoring software
- noun
- Is software that helps a user create his or her own media content.
- Blog
- noun
- Is a web-log. A diary or daily account/report of activities and personal thoughts that is stored online.
- CALL
- noun
- Computer assisted language learning.
- CLT
- noun
- Communicative language teaching
- Communicative competence
- noun
- Communicative competence refers to a learner's ability to use language to communicate successfully.
- Cyberbole
- noun
- Exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.
- Flaming
- noun
- Heated exchanges in online interactions.
- Grammar Translation
- noun
- A 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 and electronic parts of a computer or other piece of equipment, rather than its software.
- ICT
- noun
- Information and comunication technology
- Input
- noun
- Something such as energy, money, or information that is put into a system, organization, or machine so that it can operate.
- Instant messaging
- noun
- Is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network.
- Laptop
- noun
- A computer that is small enough to be carried around easily and is designed for use outside an office.
- MALL
- noun
- mobile assisted language learning
- Mediational tool
- noun
- Are those devices that facilitate a person's relationship with the world.
- Multimedia
- noun
- Is a system of relaying information or entertainment that includes many different forms of communication.
- Phonology
- noun
- The system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language.
- Rhizomatic Knowledge
- noun
- Knowledge is negotiated, and the learning experience is a social as well as a personal knowledge creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises.
- Scaffolding
- noun
- Is a teaching method that involves gradually shedding the instructor's assistance as students increase their understanding.
- Social constructivism
- noun
- Is a variety of cognitive constructivism that emphasizes the collaborative nature of much learning.
- Social media
- noun
- Is a collective term for websites and applications that focus on communication, community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration.
- TACS
- noun
- Technology and communication systems
- TACS
- noun
- Tecnologías del aprendizaje y conocimiento
- TELL
- noun
- Technology enhanced language learning
- Text messaging
- noun
- Is the act of sending short, alphanumeric communications between cellphones, pagers or other hand-held devices.
- TICS
- noun
- Tecnologías de la información y comunicación
- ZPD
- noun
- Zone of proximal development