Accomplishment in this competitive world depends not only on acquiring knowledge but also on developing effective communication skills. Effective English is the visa to success. The globalization of business has brought technical communication to the forefront of scholastic and industrial world. One of the vital qualities of an effective leader is the command over oral ability in the language of communication. In other words effective oral communication is a key to thriving leadership. The Department of English endows students with vital training to meet the demands of global communication and helps them widen proficiency in English.
Objectives
1. Exposing the students to a variety of self-instructional, learner-friendly modes of language learning
2. Helping Students to cultivate the reading habit by presenting passages on the computer monitor.
3. Training them to use the language effectively to face interviews and group discussions
4. Initiating them to prepare competitive resumes and reports.
The Components of the Lab are
A Language Lab System consists of a teacher console and a student console. The teacher console is provided with the control functions and the student console is provided with the facility to receive recorded lessons and to listen to the lessons and pronunciations. The console also has the facility to record and replay the student’s own recording.
Language lab course material is divided into two sections to get appropriate and effective result from students. The course material is divided for student’s convenience. It is divided into English Lab Module and Career Lab module. English Lab module focuses mainly on the effective writing, grammar and usage. It helps s the student to get a strong foundation in ‘Basic English’. The Career Lab module is mainly designed to help the pre-final year students to build their career oriented development. It focuses mainly on the soft skill training.
Course material
1. English Lab Module
- Reading Comprehension
- Listening Comprehension
- Phonetics
- Vocabulary
- Conversation
2. Career Lab Module
- Group Discussion
- Creative Thinking
- Interview Skills
- Letter Writing
- Oral Reporting
- Presentation Skills
- Report Writing
- Resume
- Stress Management
- Time Management
Language Lab Advantages
Acoustics:English Lab provides an opportunity to all learners to hear the instructions. Each learner can listen to the lesson
material at a level lay down by the Instructor and also receive guidance from the teacher. Individual head sets give the students the accurate and correct pronunciation. Individual headsets provide learners with a psychological privacy. They promote not only speaking ability but also effective learning. It encourages the students to speak so that the mute and shy people including other students get benefit from it. They can practice the sounds according British pronunciation which help them to speak with correct pronunciation.
Oral Testing: The students can test their voice by producing the sounds. The testing will make the students to speak without fear and to bring the students on one path which focus on learning English.
Role Playing Exercises: Instructors generate a variety of exercises structured around role-playing. Learners are grouped together in small numbers and hold conversational practice with each other.
Role of English Language Teachers in English Language Communication Lab:
The English teacher acts as a grammarian, communication skill consultant and a soft skill trainer inside the language lab imparting the duties done by all the three. Responsibility of getting the students out of their nut shell lies heavily on the language teacher. He/ She make the students to overcome their shyness, their inability to interact in the English and also help them to enrich their linguistic competence through accuracy in grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary.
