Základná škola Ožďany

2007/2008

Language laboratory

The Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic - Department of regional education, at the end of last school year announced a development project called "Language laboratories for elementary and secondary schools". Our school participated in this project through our founder and we got financial support to equip a language laboratory. The room itself was built by our founder while building the new floor of the school. We used the money acquirred to buy the neccessary furniture, audio-visual equipment and computer technology. We purchased 20 single tables with chairs, 20 wireless headphones, a mini hi-fi system, 3 PC sets, datavideo projector and a lot of language literature. As one of the main aims of the project was improving the conditions for foreign language teaching/learning in schools, the laboratory is used every day during school English lessons and also in the afternoons during group meetings or other free time activities.

Except these the laboratory is used also in extra-school time. Twice a week there is a English language course for teachers of the school that follows after the 1st level of the course from last year which was carried out cooperating with a language school and ends with a certificate accreditted by the Ministry of Education.V tomto kurze pokračujú učitelia aj tento školský rok. Then there are language courses for public - basic English and German (30 lessons each). The technical part of the project was done by the end of December 2006, when the project was evaluated. We are glad to have this language laboratory because it considerably contributes to the quality of language teaching.