TELL Vocabulary Exercise

Which word does not fit? Why?

The first one has been done as an example.

A	B	C	D	Y?
CAI	CALL	TELL	PDA	PDA - because the rest relate to use of computers in teaching, and PDA is a Personal Digital Assistant.
Software	Hardware	Freeware	Shareware
Offline	Flame	Chat	Emoticon
Browser	Word	Netscape	Internet Explorer
Webcam	Anytime, anywhere	MOO	Messenger
Constructivist	Communicative	Audiolingual	Student-centered
Concordance	Keypal	CMC	Asynchronous

A few acronyms - do you know what they mean?

CAI	Computer-assisted instruction; normally associated with drills
CALL	Computer-assisted language learning
TELL	Technology-enhanced language learning
CMC	Computer mediated communication
IRC	Internet Relay Chat (one type of Chat)
MOO	Multi-user Object-Oriented environment
PDA	Personal Digital Assistant (like a Palm Pilot)
F2F	Face to face
BTW	By the way
IE5.5	Internet Explorer version 5.5

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Last updated 19 August 2002 by Deborah Healey, deborah.healey@orst.edu