The record player
This played an important part in the early development of language laboratories, and even today a number of them include gramophone as well as tape facilities. But the gramophone has great usefulness in the learning of languages at home and a nember of “ tech youeself”records are available. In addition, the gramophone is widely used for a variety of proposes which include musical appreciation, poetry readings and drama, music and movement, dancing and song , and an increasing amount of educational material is becoming available on disc.