Outside Clasoom

Reading skill

Techniques for new Students to the Language Lab

            Myanmar EFL students made satisfactory progress in reading, grammar, and writing. They should develop their listening and speaking skills. In 2000, 34 universities and colleges throughout the country were equipped with language labs. In addition, materials were provided to respective English by the task. Over the past 3 years, they had been making great effort of communicative language teaching in the new labs.

            Native speaker voices, authentic materials and using a language lab are very excited to them coming to the labs to study English. Burma said that in her colleague has developed different techniques for communicative competence of their students. The objective of lab activities are exposing students to a range of purposeful listening experience and building students’ confidence in their own listening abilities.

            The teacher explains some of these features of spoken English using sample voices on the tape: hesitations and fillers, unfinished sentences, repetition and rephrasing, incomplete sentence and grammatical errors. Every lab session begins with a song. After the song, they are introduced to the pre-listening activities. While listening to the tapes, they given different kinds of tasks to perform and listen to the tape 2 or 3 times. After listening to the tapes, students can give oral or written summaries.

            Students should do listening practice outside of class once a week. English teachers at the Hinthada University believe in the value of listening practice in the language lab. Students can develop strategies to improve their listening comprehension. I think it is useful both teachers and students to use this techniques to develop listening skill.

Vocabulary	Pronunciation	Meaning		Sentence
		Thai	English
enthusiastic < adj.>	/ɪnˌθjuːziˈæstɪk /	มีความกระตือรือร้น	feeling or showing a lot of excitement and interest about sb/sth	You don't sound very enthusiastic about the idea.
isolation<n.>	/ ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃn /	การแยกออก	the act of separating sb/sth; the state of being separate	The country has been threatened with complete isolation from the international community unless the atrocities stop.
hesitation < n.>	/ ˌhezɪˈteɪʃn /	ความลังเล		He spoke fluently and without unnecessary hesitations.
anxieties< n.>	/ æŋˈzaɪəti /	ความรู้สึกกังวลใจ	the state of feeling nervous or worried that sth bad is going to happen	Some hospital patients experience high levels of anxiety.