THE PURPOSE OF THE LABORATORIES IS TO DEVELOP FOUR BASIC SKILLS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY--AURAL UNDERSTANDING, SPEAKING, READING, WRITING, AND TO SUPPORT AN UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE CULTURE OF THE COUNTRY STUDIED. THE LABORATORY PROVIDES INDIVIDUAL SEMI-SOUNDPROOF BOOTHS EQUIPPED WITH HEADPHONES, MICROPHONES AND TAPE RECORDING…

NATHAN HALE HIGH SCHOOL OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, IS OPERATING ON A MODIFIED SCHEDULE CALLED "SIX ON SEVEN." A STUDENT REGISTERS FOR SEVEN PERIODS WHICH ARE ROTATED ON A 7-DAY CYCLE AND IS TAUGHT IN FOUR MORNING SESSIONS AND ONE LONG AFTERNOON SESSION. STUDENTS AND TEACHERS PROFIT FROM THIS SCHEDULING. THE PROGRAM HAS RESULTED IN SUCH NEW…

A 4-YEAR PROGRAM OF COOPERATIVE ACTIVITY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION WAS UNDERTAKEN BY 10 MIDWEST COLLEGES. THE BASIC OBJECTIVE OF THE PROGRAM WAS TO IMPROVE TEACHING AND CURRICULAR PRACTICES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE MAJORS AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING MAJORS. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A FULL-TIME COORDINATOR, AN OFFICE FOR THE PROGRAM WAS…

This bibliography is designed to be a working reference for teacher educators and administrators concerned with new media utilization in the improvement of teacher training programs. Books, periodicals, and dissertations are listed under these headings Projected Media, Recorded Materials, Television, Programed Instruction, Multimedia Systems,…

Foreign language study at the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences in Budapest aims to develop the ability to use the language as a native would in a particular business or profession, and to help the student become fully aware of the political, historical, sociological, and geographical background of the foreign country and the…

The term "faux intermediaire" refers to a student who has studied French for one, two, or even several years, by means of one instructional method or another, and who has some knowledge, though often insufficient and incorrect, of French pronunciation. Three levels of student pronunciation proficiency are described: the phonological, the phonetic,…

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…

This guide for teachers to the tape indexing system (TANDEM) in use at the Modern Languages Department at Portsmouth Polytechnic focuses on tape classification, numbering, labeling, and shelving system procedures. The appendixes contain information on: (1) the classification system and related codes, (2) color and letter codes, (3) marking of tape…

Suggestions are made for the achievement of an interesting and successful language laboratory to the student as well as the instructor. (RM)

A study is reported examining language and learning laboratories as they exist today in United States colleges and universities. The study is based on 89 responses to a questionnaire sent to 150 institutions. The type of facility, the technologies available, the disciplines served, and the organizational structures established are examined.…

Discusses the place of the language laboratory in the audiolingual, situational, cognitive, and pragmalinguistic approaches to foreign language teaching. Finds that laboratory work can help in achieving some of the goals of "communicative competence," and suggests some criteria for judging such work. (IFS/WGA)

A detailed description of language laboratory sessions in first- and second-year advanced college French classes. Each session is fifty minutes long and includes a wide variety of carefully planned and integrated exercises. Students and instructors are happy with the program. (AMH)

Describes the intonation visualizer, a machine which permits a model sentence to be presented aurally to a student who sees simultaneously the intonation pattern being traced on an oscilloscope screen. The student then repeats the sentence and sees on the screen the intonation curve that he is generating. (Author/CFM)

Advocates the use of dictation in teaching English as a second language. The steps in preparation, administering and correcting classroom dictation are outlined, and a method of organizing material on a language laboratory tape is suggested. In this procedure, students administer the dictation and correct it themselves. (CHK)

Describes a system for computer-assisted practice of Chinese vocabulary. Its main goal is to help students improve their association between the sound of a Chinese word or phrase and its graphic shape in Chinese characters. This system is currently for use with the Victor 9000. (Author/LMO)