ERIC Number: ED386941
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 186
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ISBN: N/A
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Planning and Using Language Learning Centers. Applications of Technology, Volume 1, Summer 1986.
Larson, Jerry W., Ed.
This collection of articles offers advice on concerns and decisions in planning or remodeling a language learning center, incorporation of satellite reception in the language lab, coping with different television standards and technologies in the language lab, testing language skills, and the role of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in language training. Articles included are: "Effective Use of New Technology in Language Learning Centers" (Junetta Gillespie); "Satellite Communications and Foreign Language Learning" (Victor H. Aulestia); "Dealing with Television Standards Conversion and Copyright" (Cordell E. Jeppsen); "Computer-Assisted Language Instruction and the Language Laboratory" (Dana Paramskas); "Issues, Concerns, and Decisions in Planning a Language Learning Lab" (Read G. Gilgen); "A Role for the Language Laboratory" (Leslie F. Bailey); "Developing the Listening Skill: Recommendations for Materials Design" (Carolyn H. Parks); "Developing Effective Speaking Materials for Today's Language Labs" (Roger A. Sanchez-Berroa); "Bringing Culture into the Foreign Language Curriculum via the Language Lab" (James S. Taylor); "Testing in the Language Laboratory" (Jerry W. Larson); "Involving the Faculty Member in the Language Laboratory" (Jacquelyn Tanner); and "Nonbehavioristic Learning Theory and the Language Laboratory" (Bruce L. Brown). Appendixes include sources of computer software vendors, foreign language audio and video materials, and copyright laws and restrictions. (NAV)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Cultural Awareness, Distance Education, Electronic Classrooms, Instructional Materials, Language Laboratories, Listening Skills, Material Development, Oral Language, Programmed Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Testing
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), Duke University, Box 90267, Durham, NC 27708-0267 ($5 plus postage).
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium.; Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT.
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