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an all-skill multimedia platform for learning languages - and more.
What distinguishes LangLab PASSPORT?
- It's the only product to receive top marks across the board in a recent evaluation by the International Association for Language Learning Technology. (See News)
- It facilitates superior integrated teaching of all language skills in an incremental and mutually reinforcing way.
- It's the simplest, most flexible, most user-friendly solution of its kind.
- Teachers don't have to dispatch files and can concentrate on listening to and helping students.
- It's the only cross-platform solution with such capabilities.
- It's usable on-site or for distance learning over the Internet.
- It's the least expensive solution of its kind - by far.
Who can use LangLab PASSPORT Educational institutions, businesses, and other organizations can use LangLab PASSPORT to strengthen language instruction at any level: for training in any foreign language, ESL/ELL, or for training in customer interaction for call centers. LangLab PASSPORT can present other subject matter also. Its usefulness extends beyond language teaching to paperless instruction in any subject with written work, to organized oral practice to help students prepare for class discussion, and to recorded discussions in pairs or groups in any subject, with discussions based on topics presented in audiovisual materials. What LangLab PASSPORT makes possible LangLab PASSPORT makes it easy to plan lessons and to combine and deliver the whole spectrum of resources—audio, video, images, and text. You import and adapt existing content, create your own content, link to lessons any resources accessible as Web pages or as files on a server or on the student's own computer (e.g., on a CD or DVD). Students can view video clips, images, or documents; listen to audio clips and record responses during programmed pauses (or record without prompts); read textual material and written questions in a special text window; and enter answers—from multiple choice to essay answers—in response boxes. Instructors can combine these tools to create varied, compelling, and effective lesson activities and tests that integrate skills, embed language in its cultural context, and make it fun for students to learn. Working at their own pace, students absorb and react to materials that engage them through frequent oral and written response. Students practice individually or in pairs or groups, with support from the teacher through both real-time monitoring and later evaluation and targeted feedback (including comments teachers insert at any spot in recordings). 
Running under Windows, Mac OS X, Novell, etc., LangLab PASSPORT is a pure software solution (no special hardware required) that turns any computer room into a digital language lab and leverages its resources for distance learning in a virtual lab. Students and faculty can work in the lab, in a classroom, from computers elsewhere on a campus LAN, or even from home, over the Internet. Student-Teacher interaction The huge advantage LangLab PASSPORT has over CD or DVD programs students use as is, on their own, is that with LangLab PASSPORT, teachers and students interact: Teachers can - monitor and assist students as they work
- evaluate their oral and written work afterward (including from home)
- provide oral and written feedback to students (even inserting new recording pauses for a student to practice something)
- view a report that tracks students' progress and time spent on lesson activities
- easily review students' performance in the past and assess progress over time.
Compatible with classroom-management software You can use LangLab PASSPORT with classroom-management software to ensure that students stay on task. It's easy (and relatively inexpensive) to add classroom-control functions (such as those of our partner GenevaLogic's award-winning Vision product), and the combination provides additional ways of teaching and creating lessons. (See our Partners page.) The bottom line Best of all, LangLab PASSPORT costs much less than language laboratories typically cost and will no doubt be within the means of most institutions, even in an era of strained budgets. Intrigued? Learn more about Click here to see how our U.K. distributor LangLab Limited presents LangLab PASSPORT. Click here to obtain a fully-functional trial version of LangLab PASSPORT, and see for yourself how it can benefit your students. |
