Discusses the planning, preparing, assessing, and evaluation of language laboratory technology and pedagogy. (AM)

This article proposes improving the use of the language lab in second language teaching by increasing the importance of actual spoken language in relation to structural exercises, which may be of an artificial nature. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)

Rather than learning just a series of responses to drills, a student can learn "real" French by using L2-L2 (second language) precis work in the language laboratory. The student listens to a previously unheard text and then reproduces it in a shortened form. (CFM)

Speech presented at the Calgary Teacher's Convention, February 26, 1970. (DS)

Describes problems associated with listening to recorded materials and the benefits of using a speech compressor/expander. The device speeds up or slows down recorded speech without distortions and has been used with success in second language instruction, research, and testing. (JN)

Described is the design of a low maintenance, foreign language laboratory at Ithaca College, New York, that provides visual and audio instruction, flexibility for testing, and greater student involvement in the lessons. (Author/CS)

Proposes a method to be used in the language laboratory to develop audiolingual skills and at the same time give the student an active role in the use of the laboratory. (AM)

Provides an overview of the most widely used methods of classroom oral testing, as well as evaluations of their practicality and conformity to the goals of communicative teaching and testing. Also described are ways the video camera and task-based activities have successfully been used to make oral testing a more realistic communicative…

There has been a growing interest in the use of the computer in language learning because of its capacity to offer interactive learning and to handle a much wider range of activities than other educational aids. Although the traditional view of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) implies the substitution of the computer for the teacher and…

A language resources center includes a large audio cassette library along with a standard dial access laboratory system. Students may check out and use cassette tapes to listen and record, and teachers may check student recordings on a flexible schedule. Tapes are also synchronized with slide series for audiovisual presentations. (CHK)

This paper discusses the prerequisites to programed language instruction, the role of the native language and the level of skill, and then explains materials and machines needed for such a program. Particular attention is given to phonetics. (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)

Discusses methodology of teaching German in a non-German language environment. A "house program" of language and cultural material presented through television, radio or audio tape is suggested. Approaches for various age levels, use of language lab, place of grammar and oral practice are considered. (Text is in German.) (DH)

A report on an intensive training program on language laboratory use for English teachers in Israel. The course devotes itself to "problems and principals": lab conditions, drills, testing, etc., to "materials": speaking, structure, etc. and to a technical workshop: recording, editing, etc. (SC)

A NEED TO DETERMINE THE VALUE OF PRELIMINARY DISCRIMINATION TRAINING IN INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LANGUAGE LABORATORY PRACTICE ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF FRENCH SOUNDS HAS RESULTED IN THIS STUDY. DESCRIBED IN CHAPTER 2 ARE ELEVEN PILOT STUDIES, INVOLVING MORE THAN 1,000 STUDENTS, THAT PERMITTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIALS, TRAINING PROCEDURES,…