TELL Glossary

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Activity System: Noun; Set of actions guided by subjects, rules, division of labor belonging to a community that shares a common goal.
Affinity Spaces: Noun; Affinity spaces are locations where groups of people are drawn together because of a shared, strong interest or engagement in a common activity.
Apps:: Noun; An application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device.
Assessment for Learning: Noun; Approach to teaching and learning that generates feedback in order to improve students' performance.
Audio-lingual: Noun; Pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language
Authoring software: Noun; Software that allows its user to create multimedia applications for manipulating multimedia objects.
Blog: Noun; A website that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks, videos, and photographs provided by the writer.
CALL: Noun; Computer Assisted Language Learning. The use of computer technology to help learn a language.
Communicative Competence: Noun; Learner's ability to use language to communicate successfully.
Communicative Language Teaching: Noun; The approach of language teaching that was developed in reaction to the Oral Approach.
Communities of Practise: Noun; A group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals.
Connectivism: Noun; Learning theory that recognizes the evolution of ever-changing learning networks, their complexity, and the role that technology plays in learning networks through the facilitation of existing learning networks and the creation of new learning networks.
Consoles: Noun; Computer equipment mainly used to play video games.
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.
Flaming: Verb; The act of using violent and offensive language towards someone on the internet.
Genre: Noun; A style, especially in the arts, that involves a particular set of characteristics.
Grammar-translation: Noun; A traditional method 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; The physical and electronic parts of a computer, rather than the instructions it follows.
ICT: Noun; Information and Communication Technology.
Input: Noun; To put information into a computer or other piece of electronic equipment.
Instant messaging: Noun; Messages that appear instantaneously to another's device.
IT: Noun; Information Technology
Laptop: Noun; A computer that is portable and suitable for use while traveling.
MALL: Noun; Mobile-Assisted Language Learning. The use of mobile devices for learning languages.
Mediational Tool: Noun; Signs and symbols that work as agents for culture.
Multimedia: Noun; The use of a combination of moving and still pictures, sound, music, and words, especially in computers or entertainment.
Phonology: Noun; The study of the relationships between speech sounds which constitute a language.
Privacy Settings: Noun; Controls which are available on many websites and apps to limit who can access your profile and what information visitors can see.
Rhizomatic Knowledge: Noun; A way of thinking about learning based on ideas described by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in a thousand plateaus.
Scaffolding: Noun; A temporary structure on the outside of a building, made of wooden planks and metal poles, used by workmen while building, repairing, or cleaning the building.
Social Media: Noun; Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking
Social Networking: Noun; The use of internet-based social media platforms to stay connected with friends, family, or peers.
Social-constructivism: Noun; A sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others.
Socio-cultural theories: Noun; Theories based on society and culture.
Socio-digital-competence: Noun; Being able to choose and use the appropriate tools and language in a given social context.
TACs: Noun; Tecnologías de Aprendizaje y Conocimiento.
TELL: Noun; Technology Enhanced Language Learning.
Text message: Noun; Message sent from a mobile device.
ZPD: Noun; Zone of Proximal Development. The zone in which a learner can achieve something with help.