A Study on Development of Language Lab and Impact of it on English Language Teaching

We are dealing with the millennium learners with exceptional technical skills and low to no hold on English. Quite contrarily, the employment opportunities available to them demand and test the students command in English proficiency. It’s high time that we started teaching these rural and urban students with the advanced technology in the classroom with some of the innovative teaching-learning methods and techniques. Likewise, one of the major challenges is that even urban students communicate in English with their mother tongue influence. To meet the global standards in English proficiency and to gain employability skills more than one and half decade are well equipped with exclusive language laboratories. At this juncture of time this paper stresses that the urban and rural students can develop their communication skills along with employability skills (including Soft skills and Software Etiquette) with the effective and efficient use of language lab independently and also interactively. It also highlights the teacher as a facilitator with the implementation of technical resources made available and the learner-centered activities in English, as Second Language teaching will surely bring life to a good learning experience for these millennium students.