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Language Laboratory and Foreign Language Faculty Interface: Problems and Solutions.
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Ciceran, A. J.; Dahms, R. G. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Suggests ways in which language laboratory technicians and language department faculty can cooperate to integrate the foreign language curriculum and laboratory use. (AM)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Cooperation, Faculty, Higher Education
Audio Immersion: A New Vocation for the Language Laboratory.
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Sittler, Edward; Valette, Rebecca M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
Describes the Audio-Immersion language laboratory project, which made students responsible for their own progress in second-language acquisition and provided only marginal support as students learned to use the listening library consisting of a wide range of materials. (CB)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Independent Study
Une perspective pedagogique meconnue du laboratoire de langues: Sa fonction docimatique (An Undervalued Language Laboratory Resource: Its Proficiency Testing Function).
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Plastre, Guy – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1981
Starting from the premise that the assessment of second language learners' competence is a must at several points during the learning process, discusses the usefulness of laboratory testing. Argues that it allows for standardized testing, facility of test administration, easy scoring, objective measures, reliability and validity of results. (MES)
Descriptors: English, French, Language Laboratories, Scoring
The Language Lab: Cybernetics and Self-Interest.
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Arthurs, J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
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)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Language Instruction, Language Laboratories, Listening Skills
Interaction and Communication in the Language Class in an Age of Technology.
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Rivers, Wilga M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1990
The use of technology in the language classroom is chronicled from early phonograph use through the emergence of the language laboratory, and computer technology. The role of appropriate materials and the importance of interaction and communication, even with technological aids, are stressed. (21 references) (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
Language Alternation in a Computer-Equipped Foreign Language Classroom: The Intersection of Teacher Beliefs, Language, and Technology.
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Burnett, Joanne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
An ethnographic study documented the attitudes, activities, behaviors, and beliefs of teacher and students in a college French class in a weekly computer-equipped language laboratory class. Despite the teacher's enthusiasm, his beliefs, linguistic difficulties, and technical problems made it difficult to sustain lessons in the target language.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction