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This paper demonstrates how the Digital Video Disc (DVD) video player, with or without computer technology, can provide powerful and multiple functions within the college classroom (particularly the English-as-a-Second-Language classroom), enabling the teacher to design various film activities, create different subtitles for different ability level students, and facilitate students ' increased participation in the content selection and the design of learning activities. The paper describes DVD technology and offers techniques and guidelines for using it and for conducting learner-centered, cooperative teaching. It presents a sample DVD learning activity involving the film, "You've Got Mail. " The main goals of the paper are to encourage more teachers to use high-tech audiovisual equipment in the learner-centered laboratory classroom and to urge school administrators to equip modern laboratory classrooms with high-technology that can improve students language learning and overall academic performance. (SM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document