ENG529 Midterm Notes by Maha Malik

•  Acquire: learn or develop (a skill, habit or quality).
•  Aficionados: a person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity,

subject, or pastime.

•  Avatars: an icon or figure representing a particular person in a video game, internet forum,

etc.

•  Assessment: the action of assessing someone or something.
•  Asynchronous: not existing or occurring at the same time.
•  Audio graphic: The use of telecommunication technology to transmit audio and (prepared

or real-time) graphics together.

•  Accessible: able to be reached or entered.
•  Affiliations: the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular

person, group, party, company, etc.

•  Autonomy: the quality or state of being self-governing
•  Annotations: short explanation or note added to a text or image, or the act of adding short

explanations or notes.

•  Anticipated: regards as probable; expect or predict.
•  Audiovisual: is electronic media possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as

slide-tape presentations, films & television programs.

•  Analogous: comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the

nature of the things compared.

•  Algorithm: a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving

operations, especially by a computer.

•  Applied linguistics: is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers

solutions to language-related real-life problems.

•  Anecdotal: based on or consisting of reports or observations of usually unscientific

observers.

•  Burgeoning: beginning to grow or increase rapidly; flourishing.
•  Blog: is a frequently updated web page used for personal commentary or business content.
•  Bibliophile: a person who collects or has a great love of books.
•  Blended learning: technology-mediated instruction, web-enhanced instruction, or mixed-

mode instruction.

•  Contemporary: a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another.
•  Collaboration: the action of working with someone to produce something.
•  Cognitive limitations: limited skills related to planning, decision-making, and coping.
•  Constellations: a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named

after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.

•  Consolidation: the action or process of making something stronger or more solid.
•  Cost-effectiveness: Cost-effectiveness means that the product meets all of the desired

specifications at a price that is competitive.

•  Curriculum: the subjects comprising a course of study in a school or college.
•  Cognitive: of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as

thinking, reasoning, or remembering).

•  Concordance: is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work

/ agreement or consistency.

•  Criterion: a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided.
•  Digitization: the process of converting information into a digital format.
•  Dyadic: of or consisting of a dyad; being a group of two.
•  Enthusiasm: intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
•  E-books: an electronic version of a printed book that can be read on a computer or a

specifically designed handheld device.

•  Ecology: the study of the relationships and their physical environment.
•  Encompassing: include / comprehend.
•  Embedded: existing or firmly attached within something or under a surface.
•  Epistemological: relating to the theory of knowledge.
•  Extrapolate: to estimate something or form an opinion about something.
•  E-Assessment: evaluation that is created, written, delivered and marked with technology.
•  Emergentism: the belief in emergence, particularly as it involves consciousness and the

philosophy of mind.

•  Fictionally: of, relating to, characterized by, or occurring in fiction : invented by the

imagination.

•  Fantasy‐inspired: To form or conceive fancifully or fantastically; form a mental picture

of; imagine.

•  Gamification: the incorporation of game-style incentives into everyday or non-game

activities.

•  Hybrid: of mixed character; composed of different elements.
•  Hierarchically: a system in which things are put at various levels or ranks according to

their importance.

•  Hypotheses: a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence

as a starting point for further investigation.

•  Interactive: mutually or reciprocally active.
•  Interchangeable: able to be exchanged with each other without making any difference or

without being noticed.

•  Incorporate: take in or contain (something) as part of a whole; include.
•  Intercultural: taking place between cultures, or derived from different cultures.
•  Immersion: the act of dipping something in a substance, completely covering it, deep

mental involvement in something.

•  Interoperability: the ability of computer systems or software to exchange and make use

of information.

•  Innovation: it can refer to something new, such as an invention, or the practice of

developing and introducing new things.

•  Intimidating: having a frightening, overawing, or threatening effect.
•  Interlocutors: someone who is involved in a conversation and who is representing

someone else.