Describes the foreign language program and the language laboratory at the University of Hawaii. (RK)

Describes and discusses an arrangement of laboratory equipment by means of which small groups may converse with each other and with the teacher without interfering with other groups working in the same laboratory. Includes schematic diagram. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

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)

Advocates increased use of language laboratory facilities. Suggestions for improving the acoustic and pedagogical quality of recorded materials are made. (PMP)

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

Foreign students learning English often do not correct their own errors when working in the language laboratory. It appears that students fail to respond if the material to be processed, answered or repeated is either too long or cannot be interpreted. A repeat-loop tape system may answer some problems. (CHK)

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)

In order to expand the exercise capabilities of the language laboratory, the instructional place of the daylight projector is discussed, with regard to theories of language and of learning, and with attention to defined learning groups, learning goals and the technical possibilities of a combination of media. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Nine applications of the ordinary language laboratory to the training of simultaneous translators. Functional and technical descriptions of each application are given. These modes of interpretation practice in a university setting substitute for the more sophisticated facilities used by major professional schools. (AMH)

Answering critics of language laboratory effectiveness, this article presents a methodology for laboratory work which includes working in partnership. Necessary technical equipment is described. Learning goals are proposed, and possible further developments in the method are suggested. (IFS/WGA)

This paper presents ideas on using programed instruction in the language laboratory for second language learning. Linear programing is more suited to language instruction than is branching, because the former more easily allows comparison between the students' and teachers' solutions and is technically less complicated and less expensive to…

Discusses the use of compact cassettes in the context of individualized foreign language teaching in laboratory work at the university level. Presents and comments on some technical data regarding the relative merits of cassettes v reels. (IFS/WGA)