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Introduction To ETNL Digital Language Lab
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We would like to introduce to you the ETNL Language Lab. This is a state-of-the-art learning tool pioneered by ETNL that enables students to master any language flawlessly and effortlessly. This 100% digitised tool enables linguists to maintain constant two-way communication with every student independently and offer precise guidance during sessions even in large classrooms through networked computers from the confine of the instructor's console. It is a boon for students as it imparts crisp skill sets in learning the nuances of a foreign language accurately with zero distortion. This full-service computerised learning tool is not only cost-effective eliminating the need for cumbersome tape recorders and amplifiers but is also a true value-addition to any language learning. |
In this era of Information Technology, where the world is dynamically evolving into a Virtual Global Village, communicating effectively is the key to success. Language is very often the barrier for effective communication whether it is doing business with foreign nations, pursuing academic goals overseas or taking-up lucrative job offers where your technical skills are ideally suited but your language skills are not. Traditional language teaching and learning methods having proven to be inadequate or time consuming, the concept of introducing exclusive Language Learning Centres at educational institution across the country have come into practise lately. These offer decisive, intensive and phonetically correct internationally approved course modules to students under the expert guidance of a qualified linguist.
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Advantages & Benefits Of
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ACOUSTICS:- The ETNL language lab software provides all students, no matter where they are seated in the room, equal opportunity to hear the instructor and to be heard by the instructor. Each student can listen to the lesson material at a level set by the Teacher. Student can receive only the lessons assigned by the teacher. None of the lesson material is misheard due to the direct nature of the sound transmission heard by each student via his or her individual headset. |
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| PRIVACY:- The headset/microphone provides students with a psychological privacy |
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that promotes their speaking ability. It reduces the inhibitions felt in normal classroom situations and encourages the shy student to speak. The instructor can talk to a single or group of students in privacy without disturbing the rest of the class. |
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OVERCOMING SHYNESS:- The use of ETNL Language learning system encourages student to talk freely and loose their inhibitions when talking in front of their peers. Lab systems tend to make students more anonymous. |
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ATTENTION:- As the language lab allows the student to listen to the program stimulus individually, each individual student's attention is focused on the program material being studied, ultimately increasing the attention span of the student and teaching the student to listen and analyze the content of the lesson. |
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DEVELOPING LISTENING SKILLS:- Listening skills are an essential element in becoming linguistically fluent. The ETNL language lab helps students develop good listening skills and aids the process of communication. Students hear the correct language patterns all the time through their headsets instead of mimicking other students who may be pronouncing incorrectly. |
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SELF-PACING:- T he students may work through the lesson material at a pace suited to their ability. The ETNL lab a personal tutor is for them. |
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NATIVE SPEAKER/DIFFERENT VOICES:- The ETNL lab provides students with a variety of model voices rather than just the voice of the teacher (who is often not a native speaker). Our most modern systems have a Model Voice feature allowing a native speaker to converse and be used as a model voice subject for the rest of the class. |
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EFFICIENCY:- The teacher can monitor individual students (and talk to them) much more efficiently than in a regular classroom. Usually in a regular classroom all other students stop speaking when the teacher communicates with an individual student. In a lab they will continue working without interruption. Also, a teacher can interact with many more students since he/she merely presses a mouse key in order to be in contact with a student. The language lab makes most efficient use of time, improving the teacher/student time ratio and allowing the instructor to maximize the use of time in a given lesson. In a single teaching session, individual students can have more opportunity to speak than during an entire semester in an average class of 30 students. |
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RECORD/COMPARING:- The students have the ability to record their own voices along with the master stimulus. Each student can be working interactively on different segments within the same program or be working with completely different program material. |
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ORAL TESTING:- Oral test features allow instructors to test students with a question or stimulus and only record the student’s answer. The instructor can stop the student recording when the next question is to be played or spoken to the student. |
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TEACHER MONITORING :- Since the teacher is not concentrating on producing the next question or drill, he/she can concentrate more on the student responses. The instructor has more time to produce materials and oversee class activities due to the automatic, rather than manually, controlled instructor console features. |
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ROLE PLAYING EXERCISES :- Using the random pairing/random-grouping feature that all advanced modern ETNL learning systems incorporate, instructors can generate a variety of exercises structured around role-playing. Students can be paired or grouped together in small numbers and hold conversational practice with each other. |
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CONCLUSION:- Language Lab cannot replace a Teacher. The ETNL Language lab provides the application of Information Communication Technology in English language teaching, but teachers have to be updated according to the changing global scenario. |
