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

Describes the computer-aided program in first-year German at the University of Minnesota. (PM)

A planetarium program interpreting a Spanish poem about the moon recited by members of an intermediate Spanish class is described. (RM)

Ten variables involved in learning a second language are listed and discussed and a bibliography on the subject given. (RM)

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)

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)

Reviews some technological advances and classroom games which may be used to increase listening comprehension skills in the foreign language classroom. These include the Random Access Memory (RAM), the Sens-it-Cell, and the SCUCHO game. (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)