Effectiveness of Language Lab Activities in Developing Pronunciation Skill

Abstract

With the pervasive influence of technology on education-relationship between language ability and lab use have gained more attention during the last decade. Lab assisted language learning (L-A-L-L)is often perceived as an approach to language teaching and learning in which the lab is used as an aid to the presentation reinforcement and assessment of material going to be learned. As Hashemi and Aziznezhad (2011) stated one of the advantages of L-A-L-L is that it helps to generate autonomous learners. Another merit is that it has a new crucial role in teaching material. In other words using L-A-L-L in learning pedagogy reinforces current practices and promotes curriculum. They also believed that before applying lab in learning pedagogy, teachers should consider many important factors. First of all they should evaluate the leamers-lab skills to make them aware of the basic lab skills. The second factor is the learners language level and navigation on the web. As far as most of the web sites are in English the students require high knowledge of the English language. The last but not the least factor is some technical issues which should be taken into account such as access to network environment, use of modem equipments and software awareness of basic internet technology and potential problems faced by teachers