The language laboratory

Abstract

Both inside and outside educational circles Malta reacted with marked interest to the installation at The Royal University of the island's first language laboratory. Normal curiosity, sometimes tinged with uninformed enthusiasm, sometimes with mild scepticism, engendered basic questions about its nature, its methods and its usefulness. What is it? How does it work? What can it do? And it is these questions that this article will consider. It cannot claim however, to provide complete answers always, for language laboratories are still relatively .new on the educational scene and in the adaptation of the equipment and material to each new language situation, some of our efforts must remain experimental.