Paper presented at the Fall Conference of the National Association of Language Laboratory Directors at Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, October 16, 1971. (DS)

TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING, THE BUREAU OF AUDIO-VISUAL INSTRUCTION OF NEW YORK CITY CONDUCTED EXPERIMENTS IN 1ST-, 2D-, AND 3D-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES. THE FIRST EXPERIMENT, WHICH COMPARED CONVENTIONALLY TAUGHT CLASSES WITH GROUPS HAVING SOME LABORATORY TEACHING, SHOWED THAT GROUPS WITH…

Revised version of a paper presented at the 9th Symposium on Programmed Instruction and Teaching Machines of the Society for Programmed Instruction, April 1971 in Cologne, West Germany. (WB)

IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE LEARNING, RESEARCH IN STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS, AND NEWLY-DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGY HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN LANGUAGE-TEACHING METHODS. TO ACHIEVE AN IDEAL METHOD, THE POSSIBILITIES INHERENT IN THIS PROGRESS MUST BE EMPLOYED, AND THE…

CONCENTRATED FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS HAVE BECOME INSTITUTED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. REASONS INCLUDE--THE REALIZATION THAT VALUABLE INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN OTHER LANGUAGES, THE U.S.'S PIVOTAL POSITION AS A LEADER IN THE WORLD, AND THE GENUINE INTEREST AND AWARENESS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE…

Second and concluding part of a series on language laboratories. Part I appeared in Canadian Modern Language Review," v26 n2 (Jan 1970). (DS)

TECHNIQUES AND PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS RELATED TO MODERN METHODS OF OF MODERN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION ARE GIVEN. THE MODERN METHOD TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IS BASED ON THE PREMISE THAT FOREIGN LANGUAGE SHOULD BE TAUGHT AS A NATIVE ONE IS LEARNED, THROUGH A PROGRESSION FROM LISTENING AND IMITATION TO CONVERSATION, TO READING, AND THEN TO WRITING.…