Oréll Digital Language Lab (ODLL) is a state-of-the-art offline language learning solution that deliver results and adds value for educators, students and institutions of learning. It is a comprehensive, tried, tested and proven solution, which offers a wealth of advantages over existing Language Lab systems. ODLL substantially improves productivity and teaching efficiencies across the learning life cycle and provides an innovative, portable, flexible and adaptable technology platform for all language learning developments driven by student needs.
Conscientiously created, this interactive and cost-effective language learning platform is as simple to use as your everyday ATM. It takes the "pain" out of teaching any language and makes learning to communicate effectively a "pleasure" for the student. ODLL can be used to teach any language and our current version of the software is not only far more user-friendly and interactive than earlier versions but is also preloaded with over 5000 hours of 100% free English study materials and exercises. These can be edited/modified any which way the instructor deems fit and it also offers the teacher the option to add unlimited customized study material in any language and script as well.
Why Digital Language Lab?
The four basic principles for acquiring proficiency in any language are Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing or (LSRW). Although these are intrinsically linked they must all be mastered in the LSRW order of learning an order that we unconsciously adopt when learning the mother tongue and obtaining fluency in the language.
However, in a typical classroom setting this order is reversed. The student is first taught to write or spell the words, learn sentence structuring by reading passages/poems etcetera and then attempt to speak with zero exposure to any auditory source other than the instructor who (more often than not) is also a non-native speaker who has also learned the language in more or less the same manner. Disadvantages of language learning in a typical classroom setting are:
- Inhibits effective communication
- Incorrect pronunciation
- Inability to comprehend native accents and idioms
Conventional/Analogue Language Learning Laboratories
It was to overcome this fundamental shortfall of language teaching/learning in a typical setting that led to the emergence of analogue language laboratories in the early 1970s with the advent of audio tapes, amplifiers and speakers/headphones.
Advantages
- Listen to recorded voices of native speakers
- Repeat and record
- Compare accent and pronunciations
Disadvantages
- Instructor can only assign preset lessons
- Limited student evaluation
- Expensive to acquire and maintain
Digital Language Learning Labs
Digital language labs became a reality almost a decade back riding on the crest of the Information Technology wave that swept the globe transforming everything we did into "silicon chips," "kilo bytes" and software solutions
Advantages
- LSRW method of language learning
- Excellent student monitoring and evaluation
- Modularity in design.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Pioneering software-driven technology
- Real-time classroom management
- Embedded with complimentary English language learning materials
- Offline version with perpetual one-time license
- Teach any language
- 24/7 service & support
- Cost-effective with free upgrades and releases
