- The ’language lab’ is a classroom with state of the art multimedia equipment and is linked to the school’s computer network. It is a place where pupils can take full advantage of new technology to learn languages.
- Audio and Video documents are digitized into mp3 /mpeg format.
Thanks to the lab’s multimedia reader, pupils can work on audio and video independently and at their own pace. This gives them better practice in oral comprehension.
Many pupils see speaking a foreign language as a real chore! In our multimedia lab, they can record themselves on their individual machines, listen to a track again, work on a particular passage, correct themselves, re-record as many times as they wish, all at their own rhythm.
The teacher can then digitize the pupil’s work and can thus listen to it either in the lab or transfer it to a USB stick in order to assess the work more thoroughly later.
Working in this way enables pupils to make rapid progress in their spoken language skills. - Internet access: in language classes, pupils can look things up on the internet, with or without the teacher’s help accordingly.
The teacher can show a lesson plan or a task to carry out directly on the pupils’ computer screens.
Websites can be accessed either freely or in a limited manner.
Non- educational websites are automatically barred .
To finish, lessons in our multimedia lab are far more interactive and make a pleasant addition to those in the school’s traditional classrooms.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Charente-Maritime
La Rochelle
Académie de Poitiers