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

Report on a project at the University of Texas, El Paso, involving the use of the language laboratory to train foreign students to listen to different voices and to improve their skills in note-taking and outlining in English. Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1969. (FWB)

This paper describes the development of a new language laboratory program for advanced students at the English Language Center on the Michigan State University campus, which is designed to bridge the gap between manipulative classroom drills and the demands of the lecture halls. (Author)

Describes the XLL mechanism which provides each student with his own independent laboratory device. Speech given at the meeting of the National Association of Language Laboratory Directors (NALLD) held November 28, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in conjunction with the meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).…

Discusses the application of S. N. Postlethwait's audiotutorial approach to teaching integrated science to a nursing school program. (LS)

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)

In adopting a taped foreign language course, whether purchased or self-made, one must consider goals, organization of learning units, type of exercises, language correctness stimuli, age appropriateness, and (for self-made courses) pause length, voice alternation, tone quality, speed of talking, and lesson length. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)