VIJAYAWADA: Making its students future-ready, Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU) has embarked on a vigorous drive to increase use of language and life skills laboratories among its affiliated colleges. The move is aimed at increasing students' employability once they step out of college campus and go knocking at the door of recruiters.

ANU registrar K. Viyyanna Rao, who inaugurated a language lab at Nalanda Degree College on MG Road here on Friday, underlined the importance of every college to use labs for enhancing communication skills among their students.

Thrust area

He pointed out that nearly 40 per cent of the English language syllabus for second-year under- graduates focused on listening and speaking skills.

Prof. Rao said that the thrust in the present-day competition-intensive environment was on students' ability to communicate effectively. "The language labs are greatly helpful in making students perfect. Nalanda institution has been in the forefront of making use of such latest facilities for the benefit of students," he added.

Speaking on the occasion, Nalanda correspondent A. Vijaya Babu said that the lab was developed with the sole purpose of increase students' prospects.

Salient features

The chief features of language lab would be to enable students to have a first-hand understanding of language speaking skills. Demonstrations on speaking models would help increase the scope for a practical teaching of these skills to the students. Being a live subject, students would grasp language skills only when they were engaged in active conversation practices. The university had already launched an online examination for testing students' reading and listening skills and this would go a long way in moulding students well. Nalanda Degree College principal P.C.S. Reddy, NSS coordinator M. Hari Prasad and others were present.

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