A list of definitions from the chapter one of Walker & White related to CALL.
Assessment for learning (AfL)
An approach for teaching and learning, in which feedback is needed to improve the progress of a student.
Communicative Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
Can be developed in three phases, 'Structural CALL', 'Communicative CALL', 'Integrative CALL'. Which they aligned with dominant paradigms of language learning and technology.
Communicative Competence
Requires the knowledge and the ability to create and use the language on your behalf within a social context.
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
prioritize the communication of the students and their interaction skills to develop in a social context.
Communities of Practice ( CoPs)
Learning is situated in practice. People learn by observing and gradually getting involved in the community as they develop expertise.
Connectivism
Is part of socio-cultural theories. Which is described as 'a learning theory for the digital age'.
Digital competence
The ability to manipulate technologies on your behalf in order to develop social skills during the language learning.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Several technological tools and resources to transmit, create, share information.
Linguistic Competence
Knowing how the language works, being able to fit together sounds to make words and putting words into grammatical sentences.
Social-constructivism
From the work of Vygotsky, who argued that learning is constructed first through social interaction and then on the individual plane.
Strategic Competence
The ability and to manage or navigate communication to repair communication breakdowns and work around unfamiliar areas of language.
Technology Enhaced Language Learning (TELL)
We see technology as part of the environment in which language is being developed. Includes a wider range of technological devices normally used in daily life.
Tool
It is a broad role that applies to any context in which technology is the means by which a task is achieved.
It is the act of developing an activity using technologies that facilitates the learning.
Tutee
The learner teaches the computer. Where the learner constructs their knowledge by teaching the computer, often through trial and error.
Tutor
The computer teaches the learner. Where the knowledge resides in the machine, from where is delivered to the learner.