THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ANNUAL INDIANA-PURDUE LANGUAGE LABORATORY CONFERENCE ARE ORGANIZED, AFTER INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS BY NAJAM AND LARSEN ON CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION, UNDER THREE GENERAL HEADINGS PLUS APPENDIXES. IN THE FIRST SECTION DEVOTED TO MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES ARE ARTICLES BY HYER, GARIMALDI, EDDY, AND SMITH ON THE LANGUAGE TEACHER AND THE AUDIOVISUAL COORDINATOR, THE CORRELATION OF THE LABORATORY WITH THE CLASSROOM, THE NEW YORK MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT CENTER AND THE "GLASTONBURY MATERIALS," AND DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS AND FUTURE LANGUAGE TEACHING. IN THE SECOND SECTION, WHICH DEALS WITH EXPERIMENTAL MATERIALS AND RESEARCH, ARE REPORTS BY WINFIELD, LOCKE, HOCKING, MUELLER, AND PIMSLEUR ON UPDATED TYPES OF MATERIALS, LANGUAGE LEARNING AND FREQUENCY RESPONSE, PURDUE EXPERIMENTATION, MATERIALS AND METHODS EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH, AND THE FRENCH SPEAKING PROFICIENCY TEST. THE FINANCING AND PLANNING OF LABORATORIES IS DISCUSSED BY HUTCHINSON, TRUMP, AND DE BERNARDIS. IN THE THIRD SECTION DEALING WITH CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS BIRKMAIER, POSTON, HAYES, MILDENBERGER, AND ROPER DISCUSS THE FUTURE IN MODERN LANGUAGES, THE LABORATORY IN NDEA INSTITUTES, A TENTATIVE SCHEMATIZATION FOR RESEARCH IN TEACHING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION, PROBLEMS AND PROJECTIONS, AND COMMUNICATION AS A NATIONAL IMPERATIVE. INCLUDED IN THE APPRENDIXES ARE A SKETCHBOOK OF ARCHITECTURE AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE LABORATORY, A CONFERENCE PROGRAM, AND A LIST OF PARTICIPANTS. THIS DOCUMENT IS A REPORT OF THE SECOND LANGUAGE LABORATORY CONFERENCE HELD AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY, MARCH 23-25, 1961, AND IT IS AVAILABLE AS PART TWO OF THE "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS," VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1, JANUARY 1962. (AB)