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Tsang, Art – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Language laboratories exist in many language centres across the globe. Situated in the popularity of self-access and computer-assisted language learning in the present era, the study investigated tertiary-level English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' general and, particularly, negative views of speech analysis software. Two hundred and…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Intonation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
The College of Languages and Translation (COLT) prepares translators and interpreters. Some of the courses that the students take are language courses such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and 4 types of interpreting courses (simultaneous, consecutive, liaison and sight). COLT has installed 4 multimedia language labs…
Descriptors: Language Laboratories, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
This article proposes a model for integrating text-to-speech software (TTS) in students' interpreting training and practice. It shows the aims of the model, the definition of TTS, the advantages of using TTS, how to search for TTS, instructional stages with TTS, and the interpreting instructor's role. The students can use TTS software online;…
Descriptors: Translation, Speech Communication, Audio Equipment, North American English
Calderón, Juan Felipe; Nussbaum, Miguel; Carmach, Ignacio; Díaz, Juan Jaime; Villalta, Marco – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Language learning tools have evolved to take into consideration new teaching models of collaboration and communication. While second language acquisition tasks have been taken online, the traditional language laboratory has remained unchanged. By continuing to follow its original configuration based on individual work, the language laboratory…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction
Kartal, Erdogan – Online Submission, 2010
Feedback has been one of the important elements of learning and teaching theories and still pervades the literature and instructional models, especially computer and web-based ones. However, the mechanisms about feedback dominating the fundamentals of all the instructional models designed for self-learning have changed considerably with the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), French, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Shanklin, M. Trevor – CALICO Journal, 2008
This article explores the configuration of a university foreign language lab given the dramatic changes in the last decade with regard to digital recording technology and the web as a basis for social networking. Resources and procedures are described for completing class assignments, making content available, carrying out assessment, including…
Descriptors: Assignments, Language Laboratories, Oral Language, Second Language Learning
Hinkelman, Don; Gruba, Paul – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
As blended language learning environments evolve within tertiary foreign language institutions, issues of power with regards to the privileging of electronic technologies come to the fore. Blended learning, or the principled mix of online and classroom-based activities, challenges the practices of traditional CALL and face-to-face teaching within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Facility Planning, Action Research, Computer Software

Shugg, Alan – Babel: Journal of the Australian Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1992
Accepting the great motivational value of computers in second-language learning, this article describes ways to use authentic language recorded on a computer with HyperCard. Graphics, sound, and hardware/software requirements are noted, along with brief descriptions of programing with sound and specific programs. (LB)
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Foreign Countries

Witton, Niclas – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, 1984
Classifies several kinds of readily available foreign language computer programs. Most of the programs fall into either game/activity or testing categories. In all the programs, feedback to the student who has made an error is limited. Sees the computer as a specific information resource in self-directed learning programs. (SED)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Games, Evaluation
Seferolu, Glge – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
This study aimed to find out whether integrating accent reduction software in advanced English language classes at the university level would result in improvements in students pronunciation at the segmental and sup-rasegmental levels. The study made use of a quasi-experimental research design. Two classes at the Department of Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Linguistic Input, Experimental Groups

Patrikis, Peter C. – ADFL Bulletin, 1995
Discusses how computers have fundamentally changed the nature of the college language laboratory, examining specific computer programs and computer-based tools and systems. Computer-based language instruction will allow more individualized instruction, give students more control over what and how they learn, and expand the study of foreign…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change

Blake, Robert – ADFL Bulletin, 1987
The successful incorporation of computer-assisted language learning into the college-level foreign language curriculum is a much-needed improvement over language laboratories. Foreign language departments have developed software packages for the Macintosh microcomputer involving language pattern drills and language error-analysis. (CB)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Loucky, John Paul – Annual Review of English Learning & Teaching, 1997
A study tested the English vocabulary and reading comprehension of about 1,500 Japanese college and university students and compared three different media formats for teaching vocabulary in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) in a number of Japanese college classes: commercially available and teacher-adapted computer software; traditional…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis

Pierson, Herbert – Journal of Educational Techniques and Technologies, 1987
Describes the development and use of a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) laboratory in the English-language teaching unit at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Undergraduate students in a writing skills course were trained to use word processors which were available for the students' writing assignments. (LMO)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Discovery Learning, Educational Technology
Gilgen, Read – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
Three years ago, the language lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison encountered the same challenge many campuses face. Older analog technologies were getting harder--in some cases impossible--to maintain, thus making the move to digital technologies a necessity. A typical solution would have been to digitize existing materials and substitute…
Descriptors: Humanities, Grants, Program Implementation, College Administration