Description of instructional materials used at the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University of Pittsburgh. (RL)

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)

Reports on the lab's activities as a center for the development of university language lab courses and for research into contemporary oral colloquial French, a part of the applied linguistics research area, and a center for the development of a language lab grammar for Zurich German. (RM)

Describes a college language program in which modern feature films in German are used as the core material in the curriculum. (RL)

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)

The need for and development of the Miller System for filing tapes and corresponding information are discussed. Boston University's Geddes Language Center developed a distributable catalog of source materials that lists holdings by author and title of work within each language division. (SW)

In 1975 all four-year and two-year colleges in the country offering two or more foreign languages were surveyed regarding use of videotape in language instruction. Questions were asked regarding types of equipment, use and acceptability, and answers indicate great interest in videotape potential and pedagogical value. (CHK)