Use of Language Lab with Teacher’s Console

Use of Language Lab with Teacher’s Console

Language Lab can be used for teaching/learning through teacher’s Console and Language Learning Software. It acts as a platform for learning, practicing and producing language skills through interactive lessons and communicative mode of teaching. Learners can act and respond in a variety of ways at their own pace. Language lab may have the following objectives, purposes, functions to work upon.

Objectives:

To maintain good linguistic competence- through accuracy in grammar, Pronunciation & Vocabulary. To develop pragmatic competence, to understand the grammatical form & function & scale of formality. To enrich the discourse competence, to prepare the learner to be able to produce contextualize written text and speech. To acquire strategic competence to use both spoken & written language to use in a wide range of communication strategies.

Purposes of teacher’s Console;

Stay in control- Monitoring the students from the teacher’s PC when they are on self learning. Reinforce learning- Facilitating broadcast and sharing files from Teacher’s PC to the other student workstations through audio, video, text and image. Teaching with software that is approachable- Pairing and grouping the students to facilitate group discussions. Content authoring to create course material, and tests. To ensure the best learning results

1) Stay in control

New ways of learning and interacting in the classroom demand new ways of managing student activity. Many software language learning solutions keep teachers and learners firmly at the center of learning activity with a suite of classroom management tools: control web browsing; manage chat sessions; monitor students’ on-screen work and activities; black out screens; lock cursors and keyboards to focus attention on a given task; shut down, log off or restart student computers etc.

2) Reinforce learning

Teachers can use communication tools that are familiar to their students, such as text messaging or chat, to communicate with them in an engaging way and by creating more opportunities to interact in the target language. Learners can reinforce their language in various activities. They can revise pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure and conversations

3) Teaching with software that is approachable

Teachers will be perfectly at ease by using teaching software, as the interfaces are user-friendly and activity-driven, so that activities that are not in use cannot be accidentally selected to confuse the teacher and disrupt the lesson. No specialized IT skills are needed in the comfortable teaching and learning environment provided by the interface.

4) To ensure the best learning results

Language Learning Software gives learners access to resources for independent or supplemental learning and study. This unique learning-on-demand feature creates additional learning opportunities and reinforces classroom activity. It is possible to conduct & practice  tests and get results in individualized manner.

Functions of Teacher’s Console:

Live Audio & Video broadcasting To broadcast live Audio and Video from news and educational channels of  TV or from internet To broadcast the teacher’s screen or a selected student’s to other computers To broadcast Audio and Video from any analog source i.e. DVD, MP3 & CD etc Monitoring the student’s workstations To Monitor students’ screens as a whole and also on individual basis from the teacher’s workstation To take control or terminate applications on any student computer Speech drill exercises

To practice voice based activities like speech drill exercises through model imitation, voice recording, voice graph and variable speed playback to neutralize accent & acquire fluency

Group Discussions To bring the students into random or standard groups to conduct group discussions and role plays from their workstations. Live recording of discussion content for each group so that the teacher can provide feedback on their performance Content Authoring and Conducting online examination To combine text, video, images and audio to design customized course materials. To create, edit and score exams, quizzes and tests using text, graphics, audio and video