Students generally prefer "custom-made" laboratory tapes, as opposed to "traditional" commercially supplied tapes. (LG)

Reviews past and current opinions about the role of the language laboratory. Challenges facing the language learning director and teacher, which encompass innovative testing and humanizing the laboratory, are discussed. (RM)

Recounts observations and experiences made while on an educational junket to Peking, Canton, and Shanghai. (RL)

A brief discussion of a comparatively large-scale enquiry into attitudes of British students toward the language laboratory. Generally they felt it improved their speech production but had minimal effect on their writing skills. Some of the questions used in the survey are included. (AMH)

This article describes the use of an immediate, repetitive replay recording system. Photographs and text describe the system and its combination with another system to achieve the desired listen/record/compare sequence. (CHK)

The construction, equipment, and operation of a new language laboratory facility at the University of Louisville is described. (RM)

The University of Southwestern Louisiana has made a previously required language laboratory course an elective course and has changed the regular two-hour-per-week requirement for those who enroll to a twenty-hour semester total requirement. Laboratory equipment presently in use is shown and described. (SCC)

The University of Geneva's language laboratory is used by various departments but chiefly by the Ecole de Langue et de Civilisation francaises. This is a description of types of exercises used by the respective departments, as well as plans for a library-study laboratory. (AM)

Gives history of use of language laboratories in second-language learning and suggests ways to make time spent by language students in the language laboratory more worthwhile. Claims technological advancement needs effective hardware combined with an understanding of how students learn languages. (Author/BK)

This is a description of the materials developed for the language laboratory of the Ecole de Francais Moderne at the University of Lausanne. The tapes are designed to deal specifically with French phonetics, grammar, and lexicon. (AM)

Describes a laboratory structure based on the open classroom model, consisting of various "skill stations," such as the "listening comprehension and pronunciation station," and designed to allow for flexibility, stimulation, variety, and contact between teacher and student. (AM)

Discusses recent studies giving conflicting answers, mostly unfavorable, to the question of whether the language laboratory is effective. Also, it is argued that children learn their native language by a process very different from foreign language learning and that research on the stages of language learning is urgently needed. (WGA)

The article encourages the use of the language lab and gives creative suggestions for student activities under teacher direction. (NCR)

Suggestions are made for the achievement of an interesting and successful language laboratory to the student as well as the instructor. (RM)