labs and technology

[Евгения Михайлова]

That is a great question.

My observation is that language labs give multiple opportunities as compared
to the use of a home computer.
I find it very useful. FL context usually imposes time constraint on
speaking, so I used it to increase actual speaking time of every individual,
by testing students' speaking skills via the records they made as an answer
to a particular question or by giving them speaking home assignments that
should be recorded and carried out with their partner or on their own
depending on the focus.
3) set up Skype session with peer group in the target country
4) convert video into the desirable format
5) if you have a subscription to the TV channel, you might want to use TV
programs, commercials, TV series in various way. I find this very
beneficial. That way they get to listen authentic and up-to-date vocab and
speech rate
6) you can ask students to make video records about their everyday life,
then edit them in the video lab, encode subtitles and present it in the
class.


Evgenia Mikhaylova
University of Texas at Austin,
Graduate Student





2009/12/8 Richard Robin <rrobin at gwu.edu>

> The Language Center at GW provides the usual tech services (e.g. classroom
> materials digitized on a central server, smart FL laguage ready classrooms
> with FL fonts for non-Roman installed, special programs like players that
> handle SRT captions, etc., etc.), but the main service is the providing of
> language tutoring as well as language teacher mentoring.
>
> -RR
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Alina Israeli <aisrael at american.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear SEELANGers,
> >
> > This is a question to those who teach language at a college or
> university.
> > Do you have a lab or a language center (whatever is its name)? What
> purpose
> > does it serve? How do you use it? Most specifically, I am interested in
> what
> > can be done in such a center technology-wise that I cannot do on my
> computer
> > at home (or in class)? How has the center changed in the 21st century?
> >
> > Many thanks for your replies.
> >
> > Alina Israeli
> > Associate Professor of Russian
> > LFS, American University
> > 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
> > Washington DC 20016
> > (202) 885-2387  fax (202) 885-1076
> > aisrael at american.edu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
> >  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
> >                   http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Richard M. Robin, Ph.D.
> Director Russian Language Program
> The George Washington University
> Washington, DC 20052
> 202-994-7081
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Russkiy tekst v UTF-8
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
>  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
>                    http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                    http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------