BEIJING -- Pakistan Ambassador to China Masood Khalid Tuesday inaugurated a modern Chinese
language laboratory equipped with state of the art audio and visual tools at the Pakistan Embassy College Beijing (PECB) and said it would help young students to learn more about the Chinese language, culture, and arts.
Prof Nasrullah Jan Wazir, director of Pashto Academy at the University of Peshawar, said that he had sent proposal to the KP government for setting up a
language laboratory two months ago and was hopeful to get a positive response.
Language--the ability to fluidly learn words and to string them together into sentences--was the hands-down winner, said co-author Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, director of the Infant
Language Laboratory at Temple University.
Vice President of the Academy Almazbek Toktomametov said that the handwritten version of the textbook was signed by then-Vice President S.Baigaziyev and approved by the state
language laboratory and linguodidactics of the Academy.
My memory of its muchanticipated release was being allowed to first listen to it in the new
language laboratory constructed in Quarry Bank High School - John Lennon's old school.
Each lesson lasted two hours and was held either in an ordinary classroom or in a
language laboratory. The classrooms were spacious and comfortable.
Research conducted in the Visual
Language Laboratory at Gallaudet University indicates that deaf children whose first language is ASL achieve higher levels of English competency, due to the carry-over effect of a visually accessible language.
Established as the Centre of Spanish Studies in the early 1970' s and subsequently expanded to include Portuguese and Italian language programmes, the centre has a well- equipped
language laboratory for practicing simultaneous interpreting.
Boasting thirteen new teaching rooms, two ICT suites, tutorial rooms and a
language laboratory, the PS4.5million building aims to provide outstanding learning facilities for the school's growing needs.
Ambassador Richard Olson joined staff of the SOS Children's Village of Islamabad to inaugurate a new English
language laboratory at SOS on Wednesday.