A Languages laboratory at the library.

The " Bibliothèque publique d'information " of the Centre Pompidou holds a " Médiathèque de langues " : it is not only a simple vehicle for linguistic information or a languages laboratory, but it also offers more than 1 000 titles of documents in 86 foreign languages and dialects (audiovisual methods, audible and visual documents). An inquiry was held about 750 of the users : here is the analysis of their social and cultural features, their motivations, how they use languages, and also how they relate the use of the " Médiathèque " to the attendance at the library : both of which, if simultaneous, are not necessarily complementary.
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