Planning a Language Resource Center

Advice for Lab Planning

Faculty Survey

IALLT Materials

Descriptions and Photos

Floor Plans

Employment in Language and Technology

Advice for Lab Planning:

• Installing a multimedia laboratory -- article in ON-CALL by Mike Smith at the University of Melbourne
• Planning Computer-based Language Learning Resource Centers. -- by John McVicker at Ohio University
• Managing a multimedia language centre (Module 3.1 of CT4LT course) -- case studies of labs in the UK, Germany, and Belgium

Faculty Survey:

• Claire's "Faculty Needs Assessment Questionnaire"

IALL Materials:

• Order the IALLT Language Center Design Kit and the IALLT Management Manual (available online for IALLT members; others may purchase

Descriptions and Photos of Other Labs:

• Video Lab Tours from IALL – how to order
• Language Resource Center – Swarthmore College
• Anderson Language Technology Center – University of Colorado.
• SMU Foreign Language Learning Center – Southern Methodist University
• Language Acquisition Center – University of Texas Arlington
• Description and tour of the Multimedia Language Lab – Boston University CELOP
• CALL Facility at the MLI – Abu Dhabi
• Tour of the Language Lab – Washington University in St. Louis
• VR Tour – Language Center at University of Southern California
• Lab Tour – Modern Languages Laboratory at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Floor Plans:

• "Learning Center Map" - Oregon State U.
• Language Lab floor plan – University of Waterloo
• Language Learning and Resource Center – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Employment in Language and Technology:

To learn about job announcements for lab directors and other language technologists, or to post an ad, susbscribe to the Language Learning Technology International (LLTI) listserv.

The LLTI listserv is sponsored by the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT). Information on how to subscribe to LLTI is at http://www.iallt.org/iallt_services/llti_listserver.html.

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