This Laboratory has an online platform with 250 licenses and a network platform that allows, with the acquired software, to keep 20 state-of-the-art devices connected to the network, with pedagogical support.

A modern Central Language Laboratory was inaugurated on the Ignacio Domeyko Campus of the University of La Serena, intended for career students whose training programs require a certain level of English language skills as a degree requirement. This Laboratory has a online platform with 250 licenses and a network platform that allows, with the acquired software, to keep 20 state-of-the-art devices connected to the network, with pedagogical support. 

During the inauguration ceremony of this facility - framed in the celebration of the thirty-third anniversary of the state campus and in which university authorities were present, headed by the Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, directors, directors of the Law courses , Kinesiology and Dentistry, academics and officials of the institution-, the Director of Teaching, Mg. Laura Vega highlighted that in this Laboratory an interactive English program will be developed so that students acquire the basic communication tools in the language, especially those career students who do not have English subjects in their study plans.

The purpose of the program called ''English Online ULS'' is to develop oral and written comprehension skills that allow the graduate to communicate at a basic level in English and subsequently go deeper through their own means for efficient communication. ''It is an English learning environment through multimedia tools on a web platform, available at the University and online from other sites,'' explained the Director of Teaching. 

In detail, the software has sequenced lessons to develop the skills of understanding, speaking, and reading at a basic level; tools to converse, speak and receive feedback; varied tests with immediate feedback to know the progress of learning; and in the last levels, the practice of English orally with native speakers, especially at a distance. While the online platform allows you to complement the activities carried out in the laboratory. 

The person in charge of the Central Language Laboratory, Osvaldo Bravo, pointed out that from now on the student will be able to take his time, work and interact with the platform independently, ''carrying out all his activities and, according to his learning pace, he will advance. '', adding that it is also contemplated that the students carry out a focused practice in terms of conversation, where there is interaction with the teacher and the students.