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>Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:35:29 -0600
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>From: Language Laboratories and Archives <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7430 Is there an archive of FL learning materials using older
tech.?

The University of Chicago's Language Laboratories and Archives is one
such location. We have pedagogical materials dating from the 1930s,
and field recordings that, I believe, are even older than that. We
can play back records (78s and 33-1/3s), open reel material in almost
any speed as well as cassettes, etc. I have often thought that we had
material for a longitudinal study of language teaching methods. Our
archival goal is to, eventually, make everything we can available
digitally (without, of course, destroying the originals!).

Barbara Need
Manager (LLA)

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>>Cc: Channing Horner <[log in to unmask]>,        Rebecca Kline
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>>From: Mike Ledgerwood <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Is there an archive of FL learning materials using older tech.?
>>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:46:05 -0500
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>Libraries routinely archive all kinds of materials, even including
>textbooks.  For researchers interested in working on the pedagogical
>bases of their discipline, having this kind of archive is essential.
>Of course, language learning has involved technology in significant
>ways for much longer than most disciplines.  Is there an archive of
>foreign language learning materials that incorporate (older)
>technologies, along with the machines to access them?  If not, I wonder
>if one of the National Foreign Language Research Centers would be
>interested in taking this on as a project?  The reason I ask is one of
>my colleagues has some 78 records that would certainly be interesting
>for research at some point in the future and no where to donate them.
>
>Best to all, Mike Ledgerwood
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>Director of the Language Learning and Research Center
>Tenured Professor of French and Technology and Education
>State University of New York at Stony Brook