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INSUFFICIENT OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE EXISTS AS TO THE BEST WAY TO USE LANGUAGE LABORATORIES IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES. THIS STUDY WAS AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE WHAT PROPORTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL TIME SHOULD BE ALLOTTED TO THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY WHEN 80 PERCENT OF THE LABORATORY TIME IS AUDIOACTIVE AND 20 PERCENT IS AUDIOACTIVE-RECORD-PLAYBACK. ONE TEACHER TAUGHT ALL 116 STUDENTS WHO WERE ASSIGNED TO ONE OF FOUR GROUPS WITH THE TIME ALLOTTED TO TEACHING INSTRUCTION AS FOLLOWS--(1) GROUP A, 40 PERCENT, (2) GROUP B, 60 PERCENT, (3) GROUP C, 80 PERCENT, AND (4) GROUP D, 100 PERCENT. STUDENTS WERE PRE- AND POST-TESTED AND EACH 6 WEEKS, 6 TIMES PER SCHOOL YEAR, EACH STUDENT WAS TESTED INDIVIDUALLY ON ORAL LANGUAGE BY USING A LOCALLY DEVISED SERIES OF APPROXIMATELY 2-MINUTE TAPE RECORDED TESTS. OF THE VARIOUS INSTRUCTIONAL GROUPS, THE GROUP WHICH SPENT 40 PERCENT OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL TIME WITH THE TEACHER AND 60 PERCENT OF THE TIME IN THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY MADE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER SCORES ON BOTH PRONUNCIATION AND TOTAL ORAL SCORE. THIS GROUP WAS ALSO GENERALLY RATED HIGHER THAN ALL OTHER THREE GROUPS. (TC)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert