glossary of teaching terms

A glossary is an alphabetical list of specialized words , terms or abbreviations and their definitions are generally related to a specific discipline or field of knowledge. 

It can also be said that a glossary is like a dictionary prepared with the terms of a subject that is available to students; also as an encyclopaedia, where the concepts that are included as glossary entries are explained in a more extensive way, as we can finally know that a glossary is like a store of information about a specific subject.

What are the glossaries useful for?

Glossaries can be useful in helping students identify and acquire the vocabulary of a discipline. Since it is a useful tool; As a topic of interest, the glossary is very used to learn a new language and more if it is in the practice of teaching. Make students automatically understand the words of their use in the readings or in class although it is a very difficult task many times, since not all students have the necessary skills to learn vocabulary from a limited group of words. In addition, providing a glossary ensures that students have a reliable source of word definitions.

Glossary and Dictionary are the same or are they different?


Both tools  have a similarity since in both you can find the meaning of words that for the reader may be unknown; but they have a difference and that is in the glossary are words with their respective meaning but a context particular , while in the dictionary are the meaning of words of any subject in general. 

By learning and understanding the words found in a glossary, the student can better adapt by correctly using the specific vocabulary of the discipline and, through practice, acquire a better understanding of the related concepts. Glossaries can be used to provide students with not only definitions, but also examples of how to use words in a context.

A glossary not only serves to know the definition of a word, it provides knowledge to students with technical vocabulary, which they put into practice every day in their studies or work.

The teaching of languages ​​as other educational specialties, can have specialized vocabulary and use of words that give a more useful approach to understand what is the topic or activity that is being carried out by a student in the process of learning or in the world of the teaching practice.

The glossary provides readers who are not familiar with some of the words and concepts that professional educators commonly use. As for example a student who is new in some area such as teaching, not all of us have a broad knowledge about a specific topic so the glossaries as mentioned above are useful tools to know new topics.

 As with other professions, in education, the use and meaning of certain terms is constantly evolving. In fact, a given term in education could be defined in more than one way. Therefore, an educational glossary is very useful to address the complications when teaching a foreign language.

The glossary of terms was very useful for the didactics of the English language since they are new terms and words in the foreign language we handle. In this subject was necessary to familiarize with educational terms and more for the purpose that was to make our first teaching practices, we had to see some topics to delve into what is the teaching practice and how to do it in a correct way, given that in the information given in the matter could be seen along, terms that were  in the glossary.

Terms not known,  but as a  teaching option career it is necessary to know about terms of education and above all terms to connect both studied languages, Spanish as the base language and English as the foreign language that we are learning.

Knowing about terms such as L1 or L2 was very important to provide a basis for the other didactics or subjects related to teaching practice. Since it was necessary to know some concepts only with their abbreviations to easily identify them.