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Language Lab: Non-Conventional Method for Teaching of English

Presentation by

Deepanjali K. Borse

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Conventional Teaching is Teacher-directed

It follows cookbook steps of activities and demonstrations.
It doesn’t provide valuable skills like reading, writing, listening and speaking.
It continues to encourage rote-memorization.

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Need of Good Communication

Impact and influence of Information Technology on society and education.
Globalization is changing the way we work and live.
We need good communication skill.
Communication involves one’s ability to listen carefully so as to grasp the meaning and respond in turn with apt words and clarity of pronunciation.

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What can we do to acquire good communication skill?

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Language laboratory plays an important role in the language learning process and for better communication.
It is a technological aid for learning with having a number of advanced facilities that can help a student to learn a language with proficiency to communicate.

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What is the Language Laboratory?

Language laboratory is an audio or audio-visual installation used as an aid in modern language teaching.

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Need for a Language Laboratory:

Required to have a good command of the language.
Useful for assessing student’s speech
Provide best samples of pronunciation of the language.
Assist learners in the acquisition of aural comprehension, oral and written proficiency and cultural awareness.
Offers broadcasting, television programmes, web-assisted materials, videotapped off-air recordings etc
A learner can get the experience of having interaction with native speakers through the laboratory.

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Kinds of Language Laboratory:

Conventional Laboratory

Lingua Phone Laboratory

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Computer Assisted Language Laboratory (CALL)

Multimedia Hi-Tech Language Laboratory

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Significance and Relevance of the Language Laboratory:

1. It is a tool designed for teaching any language.

2. It helps one to learn pronunciation, accent, stress and all other aspects of the phonetics of a language.

3. Effective communicative training programmes for the general public, private and corporate sectors can be given through the lab.

4. General documentation, software documentation and all forms of technical documentation can be done.

5. Experts can utilize the laboratory for creating and editing scientific and technical materials for teaching language.

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Cont…….

6. The language laboratory enables one to conduct courses for various groups of people like students, faculties, businesspeople, etc.

7. Short-term and long-term coaching classes for international examinations like IELTS, TOEFL and other competitive examinations can be organized.

8. Online courses and paperless examinations can be conducted through the language laboratory

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Shortcomings:

No use of recordings for pronunciation.
Teacher listens randomly to students around the room.
Changes in language teaching / acquisition methods.
number of students is so high.
lack of space and funding.