Ø History
The language laboratory is an audio or audio-visual installation for new era teaching media. Language laboratory can be found in School, University, and Academics. It is used for help teacher teaching the student more easily. In the 1950s up until 1990s, they were using tape-based systems. The original language laboratories are now very outdated. Current installation are generally multimedia PCs or computer.
Ø Language Laboratory Configuration
The 'Traditional' system generally comprises a master console (teacher position) which is electrically connected to a number of rows of student booth, typically containing a student tape recorder and headset with a boom arm microphone. The teacher console has responsibility to remotely control the tape, such as record, pause, stop rewind etc. from the master desk. The operation LangLab traditional system are the teacher would then hand over control of the decks to the students. By pressing the record key in the booth, the student would simultaneously hear the playback of and being able to record his or her voice in the pauses, using the microphone. This is know as an audio-comparative system.
In the 1990s the LangLab had been transformation with software and hard drives in place of reels of analogue tape because so many problems with LangLab Traditional system, such as the limitation and relative complexity of the reel to reel tape system in use at that time. Many had no way to stop the tape running off the reel in fast rewind or forward wind, which meant time westing and greater chances of failure through misuse.
Ø Language Laboratory at The Present
Many schools transformed their old language laboratories into computer suites. However, the advent of affordable multimedia capable PCs led to a resurgence and transformation of the language laboratory with software and hard drives in place of reels of analogue tape. Today all the major manufacturers say they have a 'digital' or a 'just software' solution. There are very few truly software only solution that just rely on installing designated LangLab software onto a network to managed the media between teacher and student, student and student or student back to teacher. These days all changing becomes more professionally to run the networks with these 'software only' language lab solutions and deliver media synchronously.
Further development in language labs are now apparent as access moves from a fixed network related Microsoft operating system to online and browsers. So it makes the student easily to access and work from these new 'clouds' labs from their own device at anytime and anywhere.
At the present language laboratories change becoming Modern Language Laboratory because technology advancing extremely rapidly. So too is the nature of today's modern Language Labs. New technologies, such as laptops, tablets, smartphones, and WiFi networks, are the stuffs to do modern language labs. Many schools still use a dedicated room, but others use mobile so that can be wheeled from room to room, or BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in other words, modern language labs embrace the concept of: Any-Device / Any-Place / Any-Time.
Ø Components of Modern Language Laboratory
The principle of Language Laboratory, such as student and teacher essentially has not changed. They are still a teacher, controlled system connected to a number of student booths, containing a student's control mechanism and a headset with a microphones. Modern Language Laboratory rapidly include the following components, that is: Teacher Station - Student Station - Headset - server - Network - Language Laboratory Software.
Language Laboratory Software Is the software application that enables teachers and students to interact with one another. It includes a database of courses and classes. The participant a library of multimedia lesson materials assignments, student responses, and teacher feedback.
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Dini Dwintika Karuniati
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