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--- Forwarded Message from Thomas E Griffin <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:39:11 -0500 (CDT) >From: Thomas E Griffin <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Recent CALL research Our foreign language department needs the "hard sell" on our foreign language lab component of our general education courses. The students are required to complete six assignments which use the language lab's media and technology. I have seen a decline in compliance (number of completed assignments) to about 60 to 70 percent at the end of each semester over the past two years since the program was instituted. I am starting to feel that this is due to relaxed enforcement of the policy and the need for new assignments (the latter I am currently fixing). I feel that instructors are not using stiff grading penalties for missed assignments and more emphasis is placed on formal testing. The faculty unanimously approved the lab program but I need to sell them on the necessity and effectiveness of CALL and language lab activities and instruction. If anyone can recommend recent articles on the subject it would be greatly appreciated. As you know a few recommendations is less time consuming than a full library/Internet search. I need to bang together some type of justification by the start of the fall term when most of the faculty returns. Please reply to [log in to unmask] Thomas Griffin Director, Foreign Language Lab Northeastern Illinois University