Reserves
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Language Learning Center 392-2112
The Language Learning Center provides UF language faculty with a place where students may listen to or view various media items placed on reserve. Our equipment includes
- 6 television sets with VCRs and DVD players, each equipped to accomodate a number of students with headsets.
- 1 laserdisk player
- 4 audiocassette players which allow a single user to record or to play a prerecorded tape while recording the user's own practice. Both tracks can then be played back.
- 3 CD/audiocassette players which accomodate more than one listener.
- Sanako classroom with WinTV delivery of video for simultaneous viewing of a VHS tape or DVD by up to 27 students at one time.
- 13 walk-in stations for access to digitzed media (video or audio) on a local server (or on the web) and to software. Only one student can use a CD-ROM at a time.
Language instructors may leave personal or institutional copies of audio, video, or computer materials that can be used by students on the above equipment. Only an original, purchased copy should be put on reserve, not a duplicate or a copy taped from a TV broadcast.
These materials do not leave the Turlington labs. Students may check them out to use in the lab on a first-come, first-served basis during open hours. If you want students to be able to remove items overnight, or use them on the weekends, you might prefer to use the UF Libraries course reserve.
If the item is required viewing/listening for a substantial number of students, it may be best to set up a schedule. For example, students arriving on the even hours have the right to watch a video from the beginning, even if someone else is halfway through. This should be discussed with the lab director; both the Language Learning Center staff and the students need to know the schedule.
The Language Learning Center has a limited collection of video materials suitable for self-study, mostly telecourses (Destinos, French in Action, In Italiano, Travessia, Alles Gute, Greek Language and People) and older series of news or television excerpts edited for intermediate and advanced students (France Panorama, Kontakt, Expeditions through German Culture, Ecco l'Italia). Instructors may borrow these or assign viewing of a specific segment.
Resources: The Language Learning Center itself has a few theatrical films which can be placed on reserve for a particular course. Some departments may have their own video and audio collections for classroom use. An important collection for instructors is the UF Media Resource Library in Turlington 2301 atmedia@grove.ufl.edu which has a large teaching collection of foreign films, and also some audiotapes and CD-ROMs of interest; the Language Learning Center works closely with the Media Library. The UF Libraries also have an extensive video collection.
