Bring the lab to class

We all know very few students actually do what they are supposed to do in the language lab. Yet listening, pronunciation, and speaking practice are very useful and fundamental to language learning. Select some activities from the current chapter or several recent chapters and do them in class.

• You can either bring the tapes in (you can check out boom boxes or ancient tape recorders from the lab) or
• If it is inconvenient to check out tapes and tape players, use exercises taken directly from the tapescript. You could begin with pronunciation alone, then follow up with a reading-for-pronunciation exercise using a passage from your book.

Cheryl Krueger
University of Virginia