SPEAKING IN ENGLISH - A NIGHTMARE ??
Speaking in English is a nightmare for at least some of us. And this is
just because of the fact that some of us keep thinking that they will never be able to
do it, to overcome this big mental block named "FEAR TO SPEAK". In today's generation
people try different ways to improve their speaking skills. They try to learn from every
possible grammar book and material that they find and try repeating the words that they
see for the first time. But is that all enough for one to speak without fear?
In most of the schools and educational institutions 80% of the focus is given to Reading
and writing which are probably the first two skills that any non-native speaker could
ace very quickly. But towards the later grades of the school comes the other two major
villain Speaking and Listening Skills. Now, this is a point where most of us hesitate to
speak out. The students in a non-native speaking country are generally taught by
faculties who are non-native speakers and who have not still overcome the influence of
their mother tongue. So the root itself is the cause of the failure. The students have
to be trained by trainers who could speak good English , with the usage of right kind of
intonations, expressions, stress and voice modulations.
With the advent of modern technologies, there are plenty of platforms that enable one to
become more proficient in the language. A language lab is one such innovative software
solution to this problem. Initially the language lab was in the analog model but with
the advancements in technology it has been digitalized to become digital language lab ,
which is a revolutionary language learning solution.