Kim, Guiseok(1995). Role of Language Laboratory for Improving Listening Ability Linguistics vol. 3. It is a general trend to place the aim of teaching English as a foreign language on developing communicative competence so as to enable communication w...
Kim, Guiseok(1995). Role of Language Laboratory for Improving Listening Ability Linguistics vol. 3. It is a general trend to place the aim of teaching English as a foreign language on developing communicative competence so as to enable communication with native speakers. The language laboratory has been mainly used as a teaching aid to develop this competence. It is therefore appropriate to review what role the language laboratory has played in Korea over the last thirty years. Thus this study aims at reviewing what effects (good or bad) the language laboratory has had and may have on English language teaching in the future. The points of discussion in this study are as follows: 1. Necessity of Teaching Listening Skills; 2. Importance of Giving Priority to Listening; 3. Significance and Study Trends of the Language Laboratory; 4. Efficient Techniques for Using the Language Laboratory; 5. Problems of Practical Use of the Language Laboratory; 6. Conclusion and Suggestions.