Glossary 1

15 terms

This glossary was made to help us understand some words that we can read in books or texts, you can find here the definitions and how to pronounce the words.

Apps ( applications)
It is a program that is designed for a particular purpose.
Blog
It is a record of your thoughts, opinions, or experiences that you put on the internet for other people to read.
CLT ( Communicative Language Teaching)
It is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate study goal.
Communicative competence
It is learner's ability to use language to communicate successfully
Cyberbole
It is the exaggerated claims about what the Internet and information technology will achieve.
Digital competence
It is the set of essential skills, knowledge, and attitudes in educational itineraries, professional insertion, and civic life in a society with a constantly changing technological environment.
Flaming
It is used to add force to something that is said.
Grammar-translation
It is a traditional technique 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.
Hardware
It is the parts of a computer, rather than the instructions it follows.
ICT ( Information and Communication Technology )
It is the diverse set of technological tools and resources used to transmit, create, share or exchange information.
Input
It is the means used in an educational system to achieve educational goals.
Laptop
It is a computer that is small enough to be carried around easily.
Phonology
It is the study of sounds in languages.
Social media
It is a websites programs that allow people to communicate and share information on the internet.
Zone of proximal development
It is the gap between what a student can do without help and what a student can do with adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.