Place or set of places where people affiliate with others based primarily on shared interests.
AFL
Noun
Assesment for learning.
Apps
Noun
Short term for application. APP is a software program that is designed to perform a specific function directly for the user or, in some cases, for another application program.
Authoring software
Noun
Software that allows teachers to create a bank of activities.
Blog
Noun
A website that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks, videos, and photographs provided by the writer.
CALL
Noun
Computer assited language learning: The use of computers into education.
CLT
Noun
Communicative language teaching.
Communicative competence
Noun
Connectivism
Noun
A theoretical framework for understanding learning in a digital age. It emphasizes how internet technologies such as web browsers, search engines, wikis, online discussion forums, and social networks contributed to new avenues of learning.
CoPs
Noun
Communities of Practice.
Cyberbole.
Noun
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
Noun
A piece of equipment.
Flaming
Noun
Full of anger.
Grammar-Translation
Noun
The grammar translation method is a method of teaching foreign languages derived from the classical method of teaching Greek and Latin. In grammar-translation classes, students learn grammatical rules and then apply those rules by translating sentences between the target language and the native language.
Hardware
Noun
The machines and electronic parts in a computer or other electronic system.
i+1
Noun
It is a theory that claims that language learners need to receive input.
ICT
Noun
Information communication technology
Input
The language that students hear or read.
Instant messaging
Noun
Send (someone) an instant message.
Laptop
A portable computer with a display screen hinged to a keyboard, small enough to use on one's lap. laptop. laptop computer.
MALL
Mobile Assited language learning
Mediational tool
Multimedia.
Noun
Using many methods of electronic communication.
Privacy settings
The part of a social networking website, internet browser, piece of software, etc. that allows you to control who sees information about you.
Rhizomatic knowledge
Noun
Rhizomatics is a philosophy trying to understand the organized complexity of knowledge in the current reality of infinite information and interconnections.
Scaffolding
Scaffolding is a teaching method that involves gradually shedding the instructor's assistance as students increase their understanding.
Social media
Noun
Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Social networkings
Noun
A dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc.
Social-construvism
Noun
Theory of learning that has obvious parallels with and benefits for language teaching.
Sociocultural Theory
This theory stresses the interaction between developing people and the culture in which they live. Sociocultural theory also suggests that human learning is largely a social process.
TACs
Tecnologías para el Aprendizaje y el Conocimiento.
TELL
Noun
Technology enhanced language learning
Text messaging
The sending of short text messages electronically especially from one cell phone to another Examples of text messaging in a Sentence.
TICs
Tecnologías de la información y la comunicación
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 little more capable.
