Review Role of Language Laboratory in English as a Second Language (ESL) Teaching in Special Reference to Speaking of Engineering Undergraduates Dr Ritu Benjamin Assistant professor, English Disha College Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. E-mail: drrituabenjamin@gmail.com Accepted 25 July 2018 English as a second language teaching is considered to be a difficult task for teachers, as the learners come from varied arenas of society who aspire to speak English but believe in one day success. In Indian scenario where there is lot of impact of regional languages it becomes a challenging job for trainers to judge and improve specially the pronunciation of the learners. The major effective tool is Language Lab which could be used in order to let the learners become effective speakers. This paper tries to find out how far the language lab can be effective in teaching speaking skills. Keywords: ESL, Language Laboratory, Pre Test, Post Test. Cite This Article As: Benjamin, R. (2018). Role of Language Laboratory in English as a Second Language (ESL) Teaching in Special Reference to Speaking of Engineering Undergraduates. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 6(4): 64-69 INTRODUCTION English as a second language (ESL) teaching has been a challenging job for teachers from years. In India if we look to the history of ESL world English is categorised broadly into three categories: English as a Native Language (ENL) English as a Second Language (ESL) English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Accordingly there are three geographic divisions of English Speaking Nations: ENL Territories ESL Territories EFL Territories ( Braj B. Kachru in KOul D Omkar (eds.) 1992:2-3) During the last phase of British Rule i.e. 1850-1947 English was used as a medium of communication for political awakening and resurgence. English language penetrated into various sections of educated Indians variety of English came into existence and certain words were borrowed and used like coolie, jungle, etc. The method followed for teaching English as second language was Grammar Translation Method and the spoken element was not taken into much consideration. Later in 20 th century Stephen Krashen has worked a lot on Second language teaching and learning. He has given a well-known theory of Second Language Acquisition which has five main hypotheses:  the Acquisition-Learning hypothesis,  the Monitor hypothesis,  the Input hypothesis, International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 6(4), pp. 64-69, August 2018 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2018.036 Copy© right 2018 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article ISSN: 2360-7831 http://www.academicresearchjournals.org/IJELC/Index.htm