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

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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 . ,.

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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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A student takes the first step in getting his minor questions answered quickly and easily. On-duty counselor Dan Meanssolves a small problem by telephone while he awaits another student. First aid tor little problems Instant counseling, an answer at your fingertips, is the latest innovation of Valley's ever-progressing counl seling staff. Introduced in the fall of 1963, the program is organized so that the student may drop in to the lobby of the Administration .Building almost any time and get an answer to quickie questions. A drop-in counselor, on duty from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, answers questions of every variety, both for cur- rent students and people who telephone. Calls of this nature used to go from clerk to clerk, but are now answered swiftly by the rotating staff. All the counselors, plus the placement and test co-ordina- tors, help out in this new venture. The main idea is that no appointment is necessary. The student used to have to make an appointment and then wait several days to see a counselor to ask a 2- minute question. When the problems get too involved for the drop-in counselor, such as when scholastic rec- ords must be considered or when special literature must be provided, the student is referred to a regular appoint- ment with one .of the staff.