4. Problems in Language Laboratory Work
As a learning aid, language laboratory is with or without perfection. Some of common problems displayed by students and teacher in the language laboratory
are: a. Working straight to a whole unit without stopping, then going right
through again listening, thus leaving too big a time gap for effective identification and correction of errors.
b. Finishing the work before the language laboratory tine is up c. Being unable to do the language laboratory exercises
d. Being unable to identify their mistakes on tape.
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e. A commonly held error maintains that audio equipment for speech requires much less fidelity than for music.
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5. Advantages and Disadvantages of Language Laboratory
a. Advantages
1. Auditory Oriented: The direct sound transmission gives step by step guidance from the teacher to the heads of the students with crystal
clear clarity. 2. Better Attention: The Lab software is more attention enthralling for
the students, where they are engaged with individual systems. 3. Comprehensive quickly: The Lab increases the pace of comprehension
as student‘s coaching is purely based on the level of study.
4. Damper the idea: The Lab regulates the language through the different thoughts created in the mind of the students.
5. Effective learning: The lab provides to learn the foreign language practice in a focused setting that eliminates the feelings of self-
consciousness. 6. Focus Veracity: By using text, audio and video can easily be
integrated with actuality in everyday situations.
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Ann Hayes, Language Laboratory Management: A handbook for teachers, London: English Language Service and Media department of the British Council 10 Spring Garden, 1980,
p. 40 —42.
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Robert Lado, Language Teaching: A Scientific Approach, New York: McGraw Hill Ltd,1964, p. 187.
7. Guide the group: It is easy to guide the groups by monitoring each student independently without disturbing the others students.
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According to Gail M. Inlow, there are advantages of language laboratory, of every type, thus can be listed roughly as follows:
1. The langue laboratory gives efficiently and conveniently to students. The oral aural method of instruction is given by a native spoken
language. 2. Students imitate to native speech and then record their performances.
They also can listen to a playback of their taped or disk. This permits students to improve their speech habits in the foreign tongue. The
process is conducted in unproblematic ways. 3. Teacher can presents materials communicatively to different groups of
students, and applies various levels of content in the light of their language speediness.
4. Teachers able to monitor the whole class individually or groups without distracting each other.
5. Teachers able to work in an exclusive way without distracting other subgroups or individuals. He can selected sub groups of students, at
any favorable time he wishes to. 6. Teachers, in the laboratory, are active performers most of the time.
They are kept more active during any given classroom period then when in a more conventional classroom setting. The language
laboratory activity forces them into a relative active role except when they are reciting.
7. Comparing between native sound and studentsteacher record sound.
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8. The sound is in fine quality in the language laboratory
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V. Deepika, and M.Kalaiarasan, ―The Role of Language Labs in Learning English as a
Second Language‖.Coimbatore, p.unpublished paper.
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http:laboratorium Bahasa.co.idtagfungsi-lab-bahasa.
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Gail M. Inlow, Maturity in High School Teaching New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc, 1963, p. 127.
9. There is a facility which can do replay and the continual presence. This is lab features of a model that make easier in listening and
speaking exercises.
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b. Disadvantages
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