Teaching speaking skills in English language to engineering students using language lab technology

摘要

Speaking is a very important part of Language learning. In the teaching and learning of second language the articulation of the corresponding speech sounds is very challenging especially for adult learners who already have a sound knowledge of the first language which is their mother tongue. This document gives an explanation of how a language lab was used to teach the articulation of the 44 characteristic speech sounds in the English language to a group of 30 learners at a time by providing a highly interactive and personalized environment for the teaching learning process.