This article furnishes statistical data from a survey of university language/learning laboratories. The nature of the facility, distribution of disciplines and technologies, supervisor information including academic rank, title, degree, sex, salary, and information about other employees in 89 universities are included. (CHK)

Discusses the language laboratory as a means of developing practical abilities in a foreign language. Two topics are treated specifically: (1) the laboratory from a technical and theoretical perspective, and (2) an analysis of the language skills most effectively trained through use of the language laboratory. (AMH)