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ERIC Number: EJ315287
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Language Laboratories: What Have We Learned?
Harding, Edith; Rodgers, Ted
NASSP Bulletin, v69 n480 p21-29 Apr 1985
Presents the historical, technological, and pedagogical factors that led to high expectations in the use of language laboratories for teaching foreign languages. Presents findings of five studies on laboratory effectiveness showing that efficiency tests were largely irrelevant and inconclusive. Includes 10 proposals for language laboratory use. (MD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Laboratory Equipment, Language Laboratories, Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Technology, Validity
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Audience: Administrators; Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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