TELL Glossary
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.