The Center for Language Studies at Otaru Shodai
Staff The Center for Language Studies (CLS) was founded as a ministry-certified institute in October, 1991, for the purpose of pragmatic, cross-cultural study and education of foreign languages.&nbsp The CLS reorganized the existing staff originally involved in teaching foreign languages in our university, and progressively developed audio-visual rooms that had a long tradition into new multi-purpose facilities with multimedia capabilities.&nbsp Thus we strive to contribute to building the character of our students in the hopes of developing in them a global view through language education so that they might contribute to bettering our society and to contributing to the global community.
Organization:
The CLS is comprised of three sections.
The Department of Modern Languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese).
The Department of Applied Linguistics
The Department of Comparative Studies of Language and Culture
Facilities:
Our facilities include:
A language laboratory with 54 listening booths with color video monitors, 1 video recorder, 1 DVD player, 1 MD/CD player, 1 overhead camera and 1 multi-scan projector
A CAL Laboratory with 61 Windows-enabled computers, 1 VCR, 1 DVD player, 1 MD/CD player, 1 overhead camera and 1 multi-scan projector
A multimedia library with 6500 audio-visual materials, 8 listening booths, 10 video booths, 4 Mac computers and 4 Windows-enabled computers.
Multimedia Halls 1, 2, and 3 include 1 VCR, 1 DVD player, 1 MD/CD player, 1 overhead camera. one video captioning machine, and 1 multi-scan projector, and one Windows-enabled computer.
The AV Control Room with 2 audio mixers, 2 MD/CD players, 2 digital audio recorders, 1 set of nonlinear editing devices.
A winter view of the building housing the Center for Language Studies
The first soft snow!
Enough to bend the leaves
Of the jonquil low.
Matsuo Basho (1644~1694)
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