from [log in to unmask] Almost as if in response to the Inside Higher Ed hatchet piece, there was this article in Education Week: http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/01/08/02languagelabs.h03.html?intc=es The article begins: "When students of Spanish teacher Sean M. Boettinger put on their headsets in his Maryland high school's language lab, their concentration heightens, he says. The up-to-date digital equipment, says the teacher, keeps them engaged with teenage-friendly electronics, allows them to get more practice listening and speaking Spanish, and, most important, blocks out distractions...." I hope the Inside Higher Ed columnist reads widely or that someone brings this to his attention. Best, Ed ** *RULE NO. 679:* Use the term *blogosphere* as little as possible. RULE NO. 878: Coleslaw should not be counted as a full "side." RULE NO. 801: The cheaper the ingredients, the tastier the grilled cheese. *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************