TELL Glossary
25 Here you can find vocabulary related to the first chapter of the text "Walker and white". terms
- Activity system
- A group of people who share a common object and motive over time, as well as the wide range of tools they use. together to act on that object and realize that motive.
- AFL
- Assesment for learning.
- Authoring software
- A piece of software that enables the creation of digital content.
- Blog
- A regular record of your thoughts, opinions, or experiences that you put on the internet for other people to read.
- CALL
- Computer Assisted Language Learning.
- CLT
- Comunicative Language Teaching
- Connectivism
- It is a learning theory that recognizes the evolution of ever-changing learning networks, their complexity, and the role that technology plays in learning networks through facilitation of existing learning networks and creation of new learning networks.
- CoPs
- Communities of practise.
- Cyberbole
- It is an exaggerated claim about the effect of information technology on an organization or society as a whole—such as the suggestion that the computer would lead to the paperless office, or that the internet has created a global village.
- Device
- An object or machine that has been invented for a particular purpose.
- Flaming
- Heated exchanges in online settings.
- Hardware
- It refers to the physical components that a computer system requires to function.
- ICT
- Information and Communication Technology.
It refers to the components that enable modern computing.
- Input
- Something such as energy, money, or information that is put into a system, organization, or machine so that it can operate.
- MALL
- Mobile Assisted Language Learning.
- Mediational tool
- A term coined by Lev Vygotsky (Wertsch, 1985) who suggested that the primary tools of activities, represented in signs and symbols, acted as agents for, and subsequently provided definition for, culture, and served as intervening links to consciousness.
- Networking
- Nuts and bolts
- The practical facts about a particular thing, rather than theories or ideas about it.
- Scaffolding
- A structure of metal poles and wooden boards put against a building for workers to stand on when they want to reach the higher parts of the building.
- Social media
- Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
- Social-constructivism
- The idea that knowledge develops as a result of social interaction and language use, being better than an individual experience.
- TACs
- Tecnologias del aprendizaje y comunicación
- TELL
- Technology enhanced Language Learning.
The possibilities offered by the internet and communication technology for reinforcement in applications for language learning and teaching.
- TICs
- Tecnologias de la informacion y comunicacion
- ZDP
- Zone of Proximal Development. The learners potential to be capable of achieve a goal.