Los Angeles Valley College - Crown Yearbook (Valley Glen, CA)

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l' The best way 'to learn a foreign language is to travel to the particular country involved and learn from the people. However, when a trip abroad is simply out of the question, the Valley College language lab may be the next best thing. This facility, which is located in the Foreign Lan- guage building, was designed primarily to give each student the opportunity to become exposed to languages through the use of tapes and recordings made by the native countrymen. Each student is able to choose a particular record, according to his capacity in the language, and learn the correct pronunciation. He is also placed in the situ- ation where he is able to answer questions and make statements in the language into a tape recorder and compare the pronunciations with the native speaker. This supplement to the foreign language courses at Valley has been in operation for four years. This lab, which is in use 30 hours a week, has recorded a total of 3,000 student hours spent in the facility in one semester. The lab itself contains 150 records and tapes, with 300 grammatical lessons and songs at the fingertips of any interested student. The languages covered in these lessons range from Spanish, French, Italian and Ger- man to Russian, joseph Puig, the newly appointed chairman of the foreign language department, expressed a hope that some day the language lab would be used in regular classroom work. He feels that if the language would be spoken throughout the class hour, the student would be exposed to the actual situations which would be encountered if he were to go to that country. Lisette Wan adiusts the master control panel that regulates the language and tape going into each booth in the lab. Practice The French language presents a problem to this engrossed user of the language lab. N 0 is X P lli, X. . Q r 'Q' Q N lv ' HQ. l at 1:

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I feel that the sale is a valuable teaching tool in that it is practical experience for the students on how such an exhibit is run. It also pro- vides a prohtable outlet for the stu- dents' work and helps stimulate community interest in art educa- tion, Mrs. Marggraf explained. Before objects could be entered in the sale, they had to pass a' stu- dent jury and meet with the clubls high standards. Items sold every- where from 5151 to 31375, with most things between 35 and 51620. The most expensive items sold was a metal sculpture of a horse by Pat Jameson, club president, which was sold for 375 to Mrs. Elizabeth B. Whitten, associate professor of English at Valley. A wide variety of work was dis- played and sold. Paintings, sculp- tures, ceramics, jewelry, serigraphs' and drawings were purchased by faculty and community members who made up the largest portion of the customers. Publicity for the event included posters, both on cam- pus and off, mailed announcement folders and newspaper coverage. Next year, club members hope to get radio and TV coverage to pub- licize their sale to an increasingly interested public. J f' t . tx -r , ,, 'wx gi'.--'ng' To buy or not to buy, that is the question. Flonked by paintings of three students, instructor William Trierweiler tries to interest two customers in paintings.

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makes perfect Wise,-.:,.zg',fre -1 if An entire row of students listen to a single tape recording of their language. Alert coed Orriel Smith translates the foreign sounds in her earphones to English on paper. x , if i f x .f 'J fiuii: V ' V' ' A . A is Q ' N Q . , - 'np I ,. , v. Af, xx .xx -. , 42 ,,,. Q . ,.