Attitude of College Teachers towards the Utilization of Language Laboratories for Learning English

Abstract

With globalization, there has been a rise in demand for employees with good communication skills. With the growing demand for excellent communication skills, there have been explorations in the area of technology to meet this purpose. And one such experiment has been in the field of language laboratory (Smiriti singh, 2014), which is an instructional technology tool consisting of a source unit that can disseminate audio materials to any number of students at individual seats. The purpose of this study is to investigate teachers’ attitude towards the utilization of Language laboratories for learning English. The respondents in this study are sixty English language teachers from different types of colleges. A descriptive method with a survey technique was adopted. The findings of this study reveal that the teachers have a positive attitude towards the use of Language laboratories in an ESL classroom. Also, this study infers that students seemed have high motivation when Language laboratories are used in the ESL classroom.