An experimental sound- and video-library has recently been established by the Centre de Recherches et d'Applications Pedagogiques en Langues at the University of Nancy II. This article describes the functioning of the library system and gives a brief explanation of the underlying pedagogical principles which have guided the design, choice of…

Because employers substantiated that business and office education students often do not obtain jobs due to an inability to communicate effectively in an interview and a lack of confidence in verbal expression, a three-year project was designed to study the effects of instruction by audio-response (AR) equipment as a means of improving…

This paper discusses two experiments with autonomous learning strategies for learners studying English as a second language in France, one for non-specialist adults and the other for university students. The first group consisted of 26 adults who were mostly professionals and had opted for autonomy not out of preference but for lack of any other…