Student-centered learning with Digital Language Lab
The latest technology advancements in language education focuses more
on developing learners’ communicative competence and promoting learning strategies as
well as learner autonomy in language classes. Digital language lab with its exclusive
features is used by schools, colleges and universities worldwide to enhance the
communicative ability of students along with their aptitude, personal and soft skills.
In a learner centred classroom, more responsibility will be placed upon students to
manage their own learning, and teachers will act as facilitators of knowledge to help
learners understand how to learn. Being in a learner-centric classroom, students should
develop the qualities including a higher degree of motivation, self-confidence,
awareness of learning needs and the role of language learners, enthusiasm in learning,
curiosity and creativity in thinking holding democratic, open-minded, and critical
attitudes. Positive approach and self-reliant thoughts are the attributes the learners
essentially develop in a learner-centred classroom.
By using language lab, the learner gets inspiration and confidence together with
awareness about learning needs and importance of language. Teachers play the role of a
mediator in the learning process and students get opportunity to assess their strengths
and areas of improvement through the practice sessions. Besides, students get more
privacy in learning with language lab and thus they can get rid of inhibitions and
embarrassment in English speaking. While learning language with increased motivation and
self-reliance they understand that being involved in the learning process is crucial for
successful learning.