BENEFITS OF THE ATT SYSTEM

BENEFITS
Technology motivates. Technology helps teachers to motivate students. Technology is innovative and stimulating.
Controlled audio environment. A quieter listening environment allows students to focus on language tasks free from distraction.
Controlled visual environment. Teaching with visual media provides a more stimulating language environment. It allows the studnt to experience authentic language content.
Efficient groupings. Teachers can effectively and efficiently arrange student groupings(horizontally, vertically, or randomly) without the need for students to physically move.
Size of groups. Teachers can effectively and efficiently control the size of the groups.
Multilevel options. There are usefull functions that allow teachers to prepare multilevel listening/speaking tasks.
Student choice. Select functions allow students to choose their own task for example, listening to different audio sources, recording their own voices, repeatd listening to and comparing with the sound fo a native speaker.
Easy monitoring. It is convenient for the teacher to monitor or join select student groups.
Reduced student anxiety. Without a teacher's presence nearby, student stress-levels are often lower.
Student privacy. Because Students wear headsets, they are often less reluctant to ask the teacher for help, or to speak English.
Multi-sensory. The system provides teachers with the opportunity to utilize a variety of multimedia with the flip of a switch.
Reduces need for teachers to rewrite notes for each class. In the regular classroom, teachers must continually rewrite the same notes from class to class. In the language laboratory, one well-prepared presentation can be used from class to class, year to year.
Students can work at own pace. Students can work through their assigned tasks at their own pace; this is difficul to do in a regular classroom.
Students can record audio for home study. With the independent digital ATT-280 box students can record audio for home study.
Different students can work on different tasks. In the "general mode" students bring their own language materials and independently work on different tasks.
Provides repetition. The book marks function allow students to repeatedly listen to different vocabulary, phrase or sentence patterns.
Teacher can easily and efficiently collect oral work for later evaluation. The homework function allows teachers to easily collect oral work for later evaluation.
Teacher can give oral/written tests with instant feedback and analysis. The ATT system's "quiz function" provides teachers with instant feedback and analysis.