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What (who) is language laboratory - definition
AUDIO-VISUAL INSTALLATION USED IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Language laboratory
language laboratory
(language laboratories)
A language laboratory is a classroom equipped with tape recorders or computers where people can practise listening to and talking foreign languages.
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language laboratory
¦ noun a room equipped with audio and visual equipment for learning a foreign language.
Language lab
A language laboratory is a dedicated space for foreign language learning where students access audio or audio-visual materials. They allow a teacher to listen to and manage student audio, which is delivered to individual students through headsets or in isolated sound booths.
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Language lab
A language laboratory is a dedicated space for foreign language learning where students access audio or audio-visual materials. They allow a teacher to listen to and manage student audio, which is delivered to individual students through headsets or in isolated sound booths. Language labs were common in schools and universities in the United States in the two decades following World War II. They have now largely been replaced by self access language learning centers, which may be called language labs.
Examples of use of language laboratory
1. One reader wrote to say it reminded her of a cartoon she had seen in the Times Educational Supplement "in about 1'76". "This showed a schoolboy bursting through a door marked Language Laboratory and saying to a teacher in the corridor, ‘Please sir, Blenkinsop‘s just split the infinitive!‘" Several readers reminded me of a remark attributed in various versions to George Bernard Shaw, who is said to have complained of an editor who tinkered with his infinitives÷ "I don‘t care if he is made to go quickly, or to quickly go – but go he must" (that particular version comes from the Guardian stylebook). Many thanks to the reader who sent the following extract from Raymond Chandler Speaking, a selection of the crime writer‘s correspondence.