language laboratory is an audio-visual installation used in modern teaching methods to learn the foreign languages.They can be found, among other places, in school, universities and academic. perhaps the first lab was at the university of Grenoble. in the 1950s up until the 1990s, they were tape based systems using reel to reel or (latterly) cassette. but the current installations are generally multimedia computers with tape recorders, headset with a boom arm microphone