Collective formation with a complex mediational structure that serves as the primary unit of analysis in cultural historical activity theory.
Affinity space
noun
Place where learning happens.
AfL
noun
Assessment for Learning.
Example: AFL involves students becoming more active in their learning and starting to ‘think like a teacher’.
App
noun
Application.
Example: An application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device.
Authoring software
noun
Software that helps a user create his or her own media content.
Blog
noun
Website that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks, videos, and photographs provided by the writer also the contents of such a site.
CALL
noun
Computer-assisted language learning.
Example: CALL is an approach to language teaching and learning and the best way to learning in the future.
CLT
noun
Communicative language teaching.
Example: One popular CLT activity is role-playing.
Communicative competence
noun
Refers to how effectively a person conveys a message.
Example: Testing communicative competence is challenging.
Connectivism
noun
New learning theory that suggests students should combine thoughts, theories, and general information in a useful manner.
Console
noun
Panel or unit accommodating a set of controls for electronic or mechanical equipment.
CoP
noun
Communities of practice.
Cyberbole
noun
Exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.
Device
noun
Thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.
Flaming
verb
Hostile online interaction that involves insulting messages, or flames, between users.
Genre
noun
Style or category of art, music, or literature.
Grammar-translation
noun
Method of teaching foreign languages derived from the classical method of teaching Greek and Latin.
Hardware
noun
Set of elements that constitute a computer or a computer system.
i+1
verb
One teacher, one student face-to-face experience whether that is in person on campus or online.
ICT
noun
Information and communication technology.
Example: ICT is a broad subject and the concepts are evolving.
Input
Verb
Education system to achieve education objectives, such as: the number of teachers, school facilities, teaching materials supplies and the cost and level of financial resources used for education.
Instant messaging
verb
Text-based communication in which two persons participate in a single conversation over their computers or mobile devices within an Internet-based chatroom.
Laptop
noun
Computer that is portable and suitable for use while travelling.
MALL
noun
Mobile assisted language learning.
Example: MALL is beneficial for language learners for many reasons.
Medational tool
noun
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.
More able peer
adjective
A skilled partner.
Multimedia
adjective
Using video, sound, and other methods of communication in computers.
Example: A multimedia presentation.
Phonology
noun
The branch of linguistics that deals with systems of sounds, within a language or between different languages.
Example: Phonology can be related to many linguistic disciplines, including psycholinguistics, cognitive science, sociolinguistics and language acquisition.
Privacy setting
noun
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
Theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.
Scaffolding
adjective
Variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process.
Example: The model of instructional scaffolding is also sometimes described as “I do. We do. You do.”
Social media
noun
Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Social networking
noun
Use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar interests to one's own.
Social-contructivism
noun
Sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others.
Socio-cultural theorie
noun
The role that social interaction plays in psychological development.
Socio-digital competence
noun
Involves the confident and critical use of Information Society Technology for work, leisure.
TELL
noun
Technology-enhanced language learning.
Example: Thanks to TELL, learners can apply their knowledge, and they also can foster their language acquisition by decontextualizing the process.
Text messaging
verb
The sending of short text messages electronically especially from one cell phone to another.