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Title | Schools Fuel Demand for High-Tech Language Labs |
Body | From http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/01/08/02languagelabs.h03.html Schools Fuel Demand for High-Tech Language Labs By Michelle R. Davis January 11, 2010 Language labs have been around for decades. Early models were often some variation of a student with headphones hooked up to a tape recorder pressing pause and play. Today’s digital-language labs are different. At first glance, they may appear to be a standard computer lab, but students aren’t sitting in front of PCs. They have screens, a keypad, and a headset, which allow them to watch videos, read articles pushed out by the teacher, and record themselves speaking. Some products even have a digital graphing function that records students’ speech in the foreign language and graphs their pronunciation and inflection in comparison with a native speaker’s tone. Students can easily see how far off their speech is from the correct version in a graphic overlay. Read the full article at http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/01/08/02languagelabs.h03.html |
Source | Education Week |
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