Computer Assisted Language Learning Lab Report

INTRODUCTION Computer Assisted Language Learning is one of the emerging areas in English Language Teaching. In the present scenario, language laboratories has grown apace not only in urban schools and colleges but also in rural schools and colleges. However, the comprehensible input(as discussed by krashen 1982) to be given, in order to facilitate L2 speaking, has always been a challenging task for the teacher. The biggest advantage of the lab is that it could provide both audio and video lessons with a variety of permutations and combinations. One could utilize the Inter Net access, blogs, learning soft wares, work sheets for a variety of purposes,(evaluation, learning in specific contexts etc…) transfer of lessons from the teacher console
That is to say, if a student scores 7 out of 10 then his/her marks on presentation is almost close by either six or seven or eight. This means that they are able to notice minute details at the same time they are able to follow the message as a whole and it is obvious that this group of students are comparatively better than the first group of students. Tasks developed through You Tube videos not only enhance communicative competence(as pointed out by Hymes 1972) but also form an interesting piece of learning material as it sustains the interest of the learners throughout the task. It also provides a good scaffolding as far as L2 speaking is concerned especially to the first group of students are concerned. It also keep them talking at least for some time, as the video input forms an interesting piece of learning material.(that helps the language learners to learn as discussed by Brain Tomlinson 1998). The limitations are that it is done with a small number of students. The experiment does not deal with heterogeneous group of students or students from different