Second Language Research: Implications and Applications for the Language Laboratory

A Survey of University Student Attitudes Toward the Language Lab

“…The new vision sees the lab, enriched by video and computer technology, and no longer married to the audiolingual method, as a resource center that may be used to supplement classroom work: extra drill, grammar practice, remedial programs, cultural enrichment, and exposure to the real language through authentic audio and video documents. It is not the technology, but the pedagogical use of the technology, that determines the effectiveness of the lab, however (Taggart, 1980;Sheehan, 1980;Paramskas, 1980;Davies, 1982;Freire and Kunzel, 1983).…”