Tape Recorders Of The New Education For Children

The tape is one modern teaching aid which has come into much more general use over the past few years. When it was first introduced into the classroom its use was confined almost exclusively to speech training. There is nothing more calculated to make a pupil attempt to improve an uncouth, slovenly accent than to let him hear it for himself in all its unvarnished horror on the tape recorder.

Since then teachers have found a wide variety of uses for this versatile teaching aid. It is used in the English class to reproduce sound effects to stimulate pupils in their

creative writing. A teacher trying, for instance, to get a class about to write an essay to imagine that they are at
sea might put a recording of the cry of seabirds on the tape recorder.

Tape recorder cassettes of famous actors reading poems, novels and play are now available, and have an obvious application in the literature class, as do cassettes of recitals by famous orchestras in the music class.

Probably the most interesting development of the tape recorder is in the language laboratories now in such general use in our secondary schools for the teaching of modern languages. These consist of rows of sound-proofed booths, each containing a tape recorder. In them pupils can practise speaking a foreign language at their own speed using recordings by native speakers as their model.
 



Article Written By Ryan Tetsu

Ryan Tetsu is a blogger at Expertscolumn.com

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