Joining the Modern Language Department teaching staff, computers will now assist students in overcoming their challenges of learning a foreign language. The department has a high tech lab that will help students improve in their foreign language studies. The lab is located on the second floor of the Learning Resource Center. One room, the Language Lab has the new Sony LLC-9000 which enables members of a group of students to do more than one activity at a time. For example, there are 28 stations with head phones, allowing two students on opposite sides of the room to carry on a conversation in Spanish while the others are watching a Spanish lesson on the overhead television monitor.
Students can also record lessons on cassettes at their stations.
The LLC-9000 Control Console includes many advance operational features. These include stereo sound reproduction and a visual display unit, with touch screen control, to provide various information on system functions. The LLC-9000 can be combined with a range of optional peripheral units, so that systems can be built up to various levels of sophistication and for different numbers of students. These peripheral units enable up to four VTRs to be integrated into a system, provide editing facilities for the preparation of teaching tapes and allow student response to be fully analyzed. The second room, the Cultural Center, consists of a language library containing both books and videos by which a student can be acquainted with another country's culture and learn various aspects of the language construction in writing.