TELL Glossary

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Activity system
AfL
Assessment for Learning: Approach to teaching and learning that creates feedback which is then used to improve students' performance.
Authoring sofware
It is a software that helps a user create his or her own media content.
CALL
Computer Assisted Language Learning
CTL
Communicative Language Teaching: Approach to language teaching that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of study.
Cyberbole
Exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.
Device
It is a piece of equipment or a mechanism designed to serve a special purpose or perform a special function.
ICT
Information Communication Technology
MALL
Mobile Assited Language Learning
Mediational tool
Devices that facilitate a person's relationship with the world.
Multimedia
It refers to computer programs and products which involve sound, pictures, and film, as well as text.
Phonology
The study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
Social-constructivism
Theory of learning that has obvious parallels with and benefits for language teaching.
TACs
Tecnología del Aprendizaje y Conocimiento
TELL
Technology Enhaced Language Learning
TICS
Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación
ZPD
(Zone of proximal development) The gap between what a learner already knows or can do and what the learner can achieve when working in collaboration with someone who is a little more capable.