This blog is a part of my classroom activity on Language lab software.
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Discuss in
brief the history of Language Laboratory.
Modern language labs are known by many names, digital language
lab, multimedia language lab, language media center and multimedia learning
center to name but a few. View the video and read the text below to learn more.
modern language lab:
- Teacher has a computer with
appropriate software for conducting language exercises
- Teacher and students wear
headsets that block outside sounds and disturbances
- Students have a media
player/recorder for listening to audio and recording speech
- Teacher and student positions
are connected via LAN (local area network), in some cases also via
separate audio cabling
- A server computer or a separate
storage device is often used to store lesson materials in a digital format
History of the
language laboratory:
language lab development from approximatelythe
1950’s to the present day. Besides offering a brief historyof language-lab
advancement, the digital revo lution, and modern language-lab services, the
author discusses roles, characteristics, features and functions of modern
language laboratories that are neededby EFL teachers and students.
1. Language
Laboratories : Past
%..Media
%... Criticism
2. Language
Laboratory : Present
%...Podcasts
%...Blogs
%...Wikis
3. Future of
Language Laboratorie
Through the
Language lab we are being four skills master and that are the Listening,
Speaking, Reading and Writing. Language laboratory also played an important
role in the language learning process. Language lab is a class of English
language learning where teaching learning process happens computers and other
technical support. For language learning students individually use a computer
which is connected with a server.
Advantages of
language lab:
1 A language lab is practical
2 Students learn much faster in the
language lab
3 The teacher takes on a more
important role in the language lab
4 Use more resources and varied
activities than in a traditional classroom
5 Language labs allow for diversity
in the classroom
6 Labs foster communication in the
classroom
7 Language labs are an intuitive
tool for both the student and teacher
8 language labs optimize computing
resources
Disadvantages of language lab
1. Sometimes
it creates limitation or technology not helps us in some extent.
2. you can not operate
anywhere or everywhere
3. it's need to expert
faculty
4. Need to basic
knowledge of computer
5. After completed
work on this software , there is no recordes of work which was done by
students.
6. Back to home here
use TOC button sometime language learner don’t understand the real use of this
button or don’t remember it .
Works Cited
Corporation, Sanako.
<http://www.sanako.com/resources/what-is-language-lab/>.
Education, Language
Labs. <https://www.dexway.com/language-labs-advantages/>.
Khampusaen, Dararat.
<http://www.ijcim.th.org/SpecialEditions/v21nSP2/02_08_14E_Dararat.pdf>.