From Language Lab to Language Center and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of Language Center DesignThe term language lab conjures up a very distinctive image: orderly rows of cubicles designed for individual students to face machines. It is a strong image, so strong that even todays centers are frequently still referred to as labs, despite the staffs insistence on the changed nomenclature. But as this volume shows, todays language centers have dramatically changed, adapted, and evolved since the first language laboratories of the early twentieth