A very large number of institutions use ACEN language labs all over India and SriLanka for over 25 years. Establishing a language lab in itself is not the solution as one needs to create suitable exercises in the desired language- English being most common requirement.
The faculty at the institutions usually do not find enough time or resources to create the audio visual teaching material. Secondly, as the technology keeps changing, continuous up-gradation is required.
With this in mind we, at ACEN were set out to create a suitable teaching material in communication skills in English. Our focus was on linguistic communication skills. The level of the students was assumed to be 10+ up to BSC/BE etc. – in fact anyone who has undergone formal basic training in English.
We are now presenting a very comprehensive teaching material ‘ACEN Interactive Course in Phonetics and Spoken English- Phonetics, Grammar and Vocabulary’ (Edition2010)- about a 100 hours of course material.
This is an audio-video-interactive material and is made in Indian variant of English which is very similar to the British RP. The contributors are highly experienced professors of English from various universities and colleges and writers as given in below.
Contributors:
Course coordinator-
Dr. Shridhar Gokhale, Professor and Head of Deptt. of English, University of Pune.
Authors-
Dr. Arpita Banerjee- Reader in ELT, Institute of English, Kolkata
Dr. Balchandra Valke- Chairman, Board of Studies in English, University of Pune.
Dr. Grace Jecob- Reader, Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar
Dr. Premalata Rajan- Reader, Anna University, Chennai
Dr. Ashok Thorat- Dean, Faculty of Arts and Fine Arts, University of Pune.
Dr. Kamal Mehta Professor, Saurashtra University, Rajkot.
Dr. Rajendrasinh Jadeja Director, H M Patel Institute of English, Anand.
Dr. Santosh Pandey National Defence Academy, Khadakwasala
C. Ravindranath, Writer and Trainer, Pune.
Video presentation- Dr. Shridhar Gokhale, Professor of English, University of Pune.


Accent neutralized voices from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Assam are used.

Packaging:

Individual users:

Single user:
’ACEN Interactive Course in Phonetics and Spoken English- Phonetics, Grammar, Vocabulary and Communication Skills’

Available on 7 Data CDs . The course is used through a special software called ‘ACEN Tutorials 8X’ (included) that can be installed on any computer with Windows XP. This software works in presence of a dongle supplied with the packing as the key. A sound-card and a headset is required.

Multiple users:

Information provided on request.

Institutional Users:

’ACEN Interactive Course in Phonetics and Spoken English- Phonetics, Grammar, Vocabulary and Communication Skills’

Available on 7 Data CDs . The course is used through a special software called ‘Acenet Tutorials 8.0’ (included). This version includes a ‘Language Lab’ Acenet 5.1(LV) software that provides several useful functions like intercom, group discussion, paired conversation, remote monitoring and assistance, question bank tool, messaging etc. It is available for to 30 students.

(Please refer to the technical requirements of Acenet 5.1(LV) language lab)

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Publishers:

Acoustics Engineers, 301, Siddharth Towers, G A Kulkarni Rd., Kothrud, Pune 411029