The Lab Sheet

The lack of quality and variety of commercial tapes for use in the language lab is one of the primary reasons why students have increasingly resisted lab practice. Teachers have also found these tapes boring and lacking in the creative ingenuity which should provide the student with meaningful and productive practice. In order to offer students more stimulating and worthwhile lab learning, teachers at the University of Hawaii have developed the ‘lab sheet’‐a procedure which combines listening and writing skills in the language lab. The procedure may be adapted for almost any text and level of language learning. The lab sheet is intended primarily as a culminating activity covering the major structural concepts and vocabulary in a unit. For those students who have already learned the material, the lab sheet serves as reinforcement and review; it acts as a learning device for those who have not yet mastered the material. With its introduction, lab attendance increased nearly twenty percent during the spring 1973 semester. Student responses endorse the lab sheet as an excellent and profitable learning procedure

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• Our Progress in Integrating Modern Methods and Computer-Controlled Learning for Successful Language Study

  Robert A Quinn•Hispania•1990

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