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PRONUNCIATION OF LANGUAGE LABORATORY

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Language laboratory is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LANGUAGE LABORATORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

language laboratory

Language lab

The language laboratory is an audio or audio-visual installation used as an aid in modern language teaching. They can be found, amongst other places, in schools, universities, and academies. Perhaps the first lab was at the University of Grenoble in 1908. In the 1950s up until the 1990s, they were tape-based systems using reel to reel or cassette. Current installations are generally multimedia PCs. The original language labs are now very outdated. They allowed a teacher to listen to and manage student audio via a hard-wired analogue tape deck based systems with 'sound booths' in fixed locations.

Definition of language laboratory in the English dictionary

The definition of language laboratory in the dictionary is a room equipped with tape recorders, etc, for learning foreign languages.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LANGUAGE LABORATORY

language
language barrier
language development
language school
language skills
languageless
langue
langue d´oc
langue de chat
langued
Languedoc
Languedoc-Roussillon
languescent
languet
languid
languidly
languidness
languish
languisher
languishing

WORDS THAT END LIKE LANGUAGE LABORATORY

ambulatory
anti-inflammatory
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defamatory
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directory
discriminatory
explanatory
exploratory
inflammatory
laboratory
mandatory
obligatory
observatory
oscillatory
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regulatory
respiratory

Synonyms and antonyms of language laboratory in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «language laboratory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LANGUAGE LABORATORY

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The translations of language laboratory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «language laboratory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

语言实验室
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

laboratorio de idiomas
570 millions of speakers

English

language laboratory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भाषा प्रयोगशाला
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مُخْتَبَرٌ لِتَعْلِيمِ اللُّغَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лингафонный кабинет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

laboratório de línguas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভাষা পরীক্ষাগার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

laboratoire de langues
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Makmal bahasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sprachlabor
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

語学ラボ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어학 실습실
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Laboratorium basa
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

phòng luyện nghe
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மொழி ஆய்வகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भाषा प्रयोगशाळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dil laboratuvarı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

laboratorio linguistico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

laboratorium językowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лінгафонний кабінет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

laborator fonetic
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

εργαστήριο ξένων γλωσσών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

taallaboratorium
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

språklabb
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

språklaboratorium
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of language laboratory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LANGUAGE LABORATORY»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LANGUAGE LABORATORY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about language laboratory

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LANGUAGE LABORATORY»

Discover the use of language laboratory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to language laboratory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and ...
Thirty years ago, educational technology in the language classroom was concentrated on the language laboratory and the new forms of exercises that went along with it. In Germany, the idea of teaching foreign languages with the help of ...
James E. Alatis, 1989
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Teaching English as a Second Language
There is yet another aid called the language laboratory, which, if put to effective use, will provide the students with adequate opportunities to practise oral-aural language skills. Robert Lado points out that there are two conflicting views on the  ...
C. Paul Verghese, 1989
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ICEL 2007: 2nd International Conference on E-Learning, ...
Remediation and Educational Innovation: Transformations of the Language Laboratory Mads Bo-Kristensen1 and Bente Meyer2 1Resource Centre for Integration, Havneparken, Denmark 2The Danish University of Education, Denmark ...
Dan Remenyi, 2007
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Teaching English as an Additional Language
A language laboratory provides enough opportunity to students to practise speaking English correctly. (iii) Its approach is individualistic in nature. The student learns at his own pace, repeating and relearning as many times as required without ...
Neena Dash & M. Dash, 2007
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Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and ...
Modern foreign languages in high school: The language laboratory. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Jarlett, F. G. (1971). The falsely accused language laboratory: 25 years of misuse. NALLDJoumal, 5(4) ...
David H. Jonassen, 2004
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Frontiers in Computer Education
In 1978, the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute to buy Norway Trimble's Tandberg500-based language laboratory equipment 7 sets; in 1979, Shanghai Foreign Language Institute to purchased equipment, a set of Sony's 48; in 1980, Hebei ...
Sabo Sambath, Egui Zhu, 2012
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Annals of Language and Learning: Proceedings of the 2009 ...
The language laboratory is very useful for assessing students' spoken competence. It provides students with the technical tools to get the best samples of pronunciation of the language. The electronic devices used in the laboratory stimulate ...
Azadeh Shafaei, Mehran Nejati, 2010
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English Language Teaching: Approaches, Methods, Techniques
A typical language laboratory has booths with tape recorders. These recorders generally have an [ONl| STOPlpFF] | REWIND] and | RECORD] mechanism. The ' master recording, which enables a learner to listen on one track and record on ...
Nagaraj, 1996
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Foreign Language Teaching in the Universities
V. LANGUAGE LABORATORIES AND NEW METHODS (i) Equipment and General Adam, J. B., & Shawcross, A. J., The Language Laboratory, Pitman, London, 72 pp. Ham, E. B., 'Le Laboratoire linguistique — actif et passif, Les Conferences ...
F. G. Healey, 1967
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Routledge Enyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning
Extensive listening material could be as easily transferred to student positions from the console as oral drill material, and the language laboratory was recognised as a valuable resource for allowing students to work at their own pace with ...
Michael Byram, Adelheid Hu, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LANGUAGE LABORATORY»

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College to help government school teachers learn English
"We are also going to set an English language laboratory, for which the updated software has already been ordered from Hyderabad," Thind ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
2
Unmonitored growth of home schooling is cause for concern in …
No home can adequately meet the standard expectations of a fully provided science or language laboratory, art or music rooms, let alone ... «Courier Mail, Jul 15»
3
Portuguese parallels in festival theatre
However, as with his My Fair Lady - A Language Laboratory (which played at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2012), I found myself ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
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[OPINION] Prof. Siyan Oyeweso: The Mark Of A Scholar, University …
... Provost's Chalet, 6-Room Studio Apartments, one building dedicated to ICT, 120-seater one Language Laboratory, Communication Studio, ... «Information Nigeria, Jul 15»
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Prof. Siyan Oyeweso: the mark of a scholar, university administrator …
... Provost's Chalet, 6-Room Studio Apartments, one building dedicated to ICT, 120-seater one Language Laboratory, Communication Studio, ... «Eagle Reporters, Jul 15»
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* Sri Lankan President vows to overcome any challenge for the sake …
... which comprises a Nenasala Center for Distance Learning, new Mathematics Lab, the Language Laboratory and Technical Laboratory. «Colombo Page, Jul 15»
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Bravo: Golf classic raises funds for breast cancer detection
... tutoring at the Boys & Girls Club, writing for the Mission Viejo Library teen blog and interning at UCI's Computation of Language Laboratory. «OCRegister, Jul 15»
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Looking back: July 1, 1966
The language laboratory was opened three years ago, not only for teaching English to foreign students but for teaching foreign languages to ... «Watford Observer, Jun 15»
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Haiti - Education : Monitoring of the reconstruction progress of Lycée …
It will also include among others: a modern language laboratory, a laboratory of chemistry and physics, a computer lab, a library and ... «Haitilibre.com, Jun 15»
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Seychelles Tourism Academy: A promise made and delivered
They visited the library, language laboratory, the administration and hospitality management blocks, canteen and commercial kitchen, and the ... «eTurboNews, Jun 15»

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