LABORATORIES OF LANGUAGE
Introduction In New Zealand (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 9. Language laboratories providing special foreign language training for senior school pupils W'ill soon be introduced to New Zealand, with a pilot scheme for each island, an Auckland senior inspector, Mr M. Hewitson, said today. Mr Hewitson has returned from a trip to England and Scotland and will prepare a report qn language teaching trends in Britain for the Department of Education.
He visited the biggest of 50 experimental language laboratories in Britain.
“They are converted classrooms, divided into booth*. Each pupil has a tape recorder so he can both hear the language and speak it
''The teacher has a master tape recorder with native pronunciation and can hear any pupil at any time,” Mr Hewitson said.
‘‘Pupils are able to repeat what they hear from a model voice and they are able to speak and listen to their own voices.
“We are going to introduce it in this country. I must emphasise that language laboratories can’t really do anything that a good teacher can’t but they are a very useful add to the good teacher.’*
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30103, 10 April 1963, Page 4
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