Learner autonomy has been an important issue in English Language Teaching since the 1960s. In language teaching it is of vital importance, since learning can only occur if the learners are willing to learn. So, the students have to realize that their role in the process of learning is crucial. Students have different needs, styles of learning and…

Tapping into technology for foreign language learning is important, given that such learning is seen as vital to the nation's economic and cultural well-being. The development of technology has dovetailed nicely with a new paradigm of foreign language education, says Marty Abbott, director of education for the American Council on the Teaching of…

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

Comments on the article cited above emphasize that in media-aided instruction the main things to remember are the methodological and pedagogical aspects, and not the physical equipment, which leaves untouched the content and the concept of modern foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

How teachers can make maximum use of listening for learning. (HB)

How Western Michigan University uses it's Multiple Audio Distribution (MAD) System for instruction. (HB)

INTENDED FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS AND AUDIOVISUAL SPECIALISTS, THIS MONOGRAPH EMPHASIZES A DYNAMIC VIEW OF THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY IN CHAPTERS THAT DISCUSS THE HISTORY AND CURRENT USE OF LANGUAGE LABS, CURRENT RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS, AND APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE LAB PRINCIPLES TO NEW MEDIA. APPENDIXES INCLUDE GRAPHICS OF THE…

CURRENT USES OF FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM WERE STUDIED (1) BY AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS IN FIVE TRADITIONALLY SCHEDULED SCHOOLS AND FIVE FLEXIBLY SCHEDULED SCHOOLS AND (2) BY A REVIEW OF THE FINDINGS OF THE STUDY BY A CONFERENCE OF SPECIALISTS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION, FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING,…

A MEMBER OF THE MANCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARIES STAFF HAS COMPILED A SELECTIVE, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON LANGUAGE LABORATORIES, LISTING APPROXIMATELY 230 BOOKS AND PERIODICAL ARTICLES, MANY OF WHICH ARE BRITISH PUBLICATIONS CONSIDERED ACCESSIBLE TO BRITISH USERS. THE SECTIONS ARE--(1) BIBLIOGRAPHIES, (2) GENERAL AND COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNTS DESCRIBING…

VARIOUS INSTRUCTIONAL PROJECTION EQUIPMENT AUDIOMETERS, AND SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL CONSOLES WERE PICTURED AND BRIEFLY ANNOTATED IN THIS DOCUMENT. PROTOTYPES OF NEW EQUIPMENT WERE ALSO INCLUDED. OTHER VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES ARE ED 003 738 THROUGH ED 003 746. (TC)

AT THE ECONOMICS INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A SUMMER ORIENTATION PROGRAM FOR FOREIGN GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ECONOMICS, AN APPROACH TO THE TEACHING OF COMPOSITION HAS BEEN DEVELOPED WHICH INVOLVES THE USE OF WRITING LABORATORIES BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE AURAL-ORAL LANGUAGE LABORATORY. THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF THE LATTER IS THAT BY…