Language Lab Review

 This blog is a part of my classroom activity on Language lab software. 
   
To show worksheet of given task click here.

 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>.