A CALI GLOSSARY FOR BEGINNERS

Abstract

Language teachers who make the effort to become familiar with the computer and its application to language teaching oftenencounter an irony that they perhaps do not expect: the necessity of learning a new language, or at least a substantial number of newspecialized terms in their won language. Many of these terms are acronyms and have no meaning apart from the world of computers,e.g., ASCII and ROM. Others are English words which have taken on a new meaning, e.g., boot and menu.