Students attend a language learning class. A Telegraph file picture

Jamshedpur, Feb. 24: The technologically-aided education is all set to enter the language learning domain at 77 DAV schools in the state, which will soon open linguistic laboratories from the next academic year.

The decision was taken at a meeting of DAV school principals at Ranchi recently, wherein it was decided that an advanced state-of-the-art computer laboratory would be set up at each school, which would also double up as language labs.

Principal of DAV Bistupur S.P. Sharma said: ?Earlier, we had decided to introduce this project (Microsoft School Project) only at the zonal level, but now all 700 DAV schools in the country would be a part of this computer-aided programme.?

The school management committee has tied up with Infocom Software Services, a Chennai-based software company, which would help the schools in not only starting the state-of-the-art computer lab but also in installing the latest Microsoft software to make classroom studies more interesting, Sharma added.

As per the agreement, the company would provide every school an advanced software, Rosetta Stone, which will facilitate language learning.

Daya Chakravarty, a computer teacher at DAV Bistupur, said: ?The software will enable a student to learn at least five languages including French, German and Spanish without any assistance from teachers at a click of a mouse.?

Chakravarty is also one of the executives leading Microsoft School Project.

As of now, only two city schools would be part of this unique programme and the facilities at the language labs would be available to students only from Class VI onwards. About seven Microsoft language-learning softwares would be installed in the two schools.

To make the technology-aided education more prolific, a special training session for school teachers and principals would also be organised at Ranchi by senior officials from Microsoft India, Chakravarty said.

?These workshops would be held in every zone, but the programme schedules are yet to be decided,? he added.