Presented as a paper at the meeting of the National Association of Language Laboratory Directors (NALLD), New York, New York, December 28, 1968. Suggests ways of improving language laboratory instruction in light of the Pennsylvania Project. (DS)

The language learning room planned for the French Language Training Center proposed for Simon Fraser University is described. It is planned to accommodate a variety of pedagogical philosophies and programs--lockstep audiovisual, lockstep audiolingual, individualized audiolingual, and other tried or experimental approaches. (Author/RM)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Fifth Symposium of the PILEI, Programa Interamericano de Linguistica y Ensenanza de Idiomas (Inter-American Program on Linguistics and Foreign Language Instruction), Sao Paolo, Brazil, January 11, 1969. (DS)

This review of the state of foreign language education in the United States notes that early grammar-translation methods gave way to the Army Method during World War II. Students learned both inductively and deductively and acquired primarily oral-aural competence, with reading and writing as secondary goals. Not until the late 1950s did the…