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Simpson, Rachel; Ramshaw, Judy; Lewis, Sarah; Hoggarth, Aleesha – Primary Science, 2019
The commonly held view that science takes third place in primary education provided the motivation for a team of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) tutors at Durham University to work with science leaders in a Teaching School Alliance in County Durham. After a series of planning meetings, a project entitled 'A Year of Science: using speaking and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Speech Communication
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Emel, Susan Redding – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2018
For most students at my university, classroom experience alone was the choice for formally developing speaking skills. My idea was to provide students with recurring authentic audience experience, attending to the audience dimension outlined by Derryberry (1989) as a critical requirement of public speaking pedagogy. Through research, a new idea…
Descriptors: College Students, Speech Skills, Speech Communication, Audiences
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McGloin, Rory; Coletti, Amanda – Communication Center Journal, 2019
Effective presentation skills never go out of style, however, the channel by which we deliver presentations has been rapidly changing over the past two decades. Technological developments have made it easier to bring audiences together in virtual spaces and as a result, more and more presentations are taking place every day through digital…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Communication Skills, Computer Mediated Communication, Telecommunications
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Hancock, Adrienne; Helenius, Lauren – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Current research to describe and evaluate effectiveness of voice and communication therapy for male-to-female transgender people is limited to adults. This paper provides rationale, procedures, and outcomes from voice and communication therapy for a male-to-female transgender adolescent 15 years of age. Treatment addressed vocal hygiene, breath…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Sexual Identity, Therapy, Communication Skills
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Hansen, Lynne – Language Teaching, 2011
Recent years have brought increasing attention to studies of language acquisition in a country where the language is spoken, as opposed to formal language study in classrooms. Research on language learners in immersion contexts is important, as the question of whether study abroad is valuable is still somewhat controversial among researchers…
Descriptors: Language Research, Linguistics, Heterogeneous Grouping, Study Abroad
Billak, Bonnie – English Teaching Forum, 2011
A persistent problem for teachers in English as a Second Language (ESL) situations concerns students who speak their shared common language instead of English in the classroom. Considering the inherent difficulty of the speaking skill, this is understandable. Learners often prefer to interact socially in their native language, allowing them to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Classroom Communication, Native Language
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Demski, Jennifer – T.H.E. Journal, 2009
The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics. This article features Ginny Badger, a teaching assistant at Glenwood Springs High School in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, who sacrificed her…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Computer Software, Program Effectiveness
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Tabrizi, Shereen – Learning Languages, 2009
The Dearborn Public Schools, with 18,300 students, is located in the Detroit urban area with the largest concentration of Arabic-speaking people in the United States. In order to prepare the students for the 21st century skills and global awareness and in response to parents' requests, the author in collaboration with the school principal and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, FLES, Speech Communication, Federal Aid
Hampden-Turner, Charles – Cambridge University Press, 2009
Is it possible to teach someone to be an entrepreneur? Is innovation something that can be assessed and taught in a classroom? Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship answers these and other questions by focusing on a teaching experiment in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University, wherein classes of English-speaking Singaporeans and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intellectual Property, Instructional Innovation, Innovation
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Hobgood, Linda B. – Communication Education, 2000
Describes an alternative approach to a communication lab or speaking center known as the Speech Center, which serves the entire university community. Notes that the use of the center is based entirely on voluntary participation by faculty and staff. Reviews methods and operating procedures for this alternative program. (SG)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
VerLinden, Jay – 1996
In the Department of Speech Communication at Humboldt State University, there are two programs (a tutoring program and the Undergraduate Instructional Assistant program) through which undergraduate students help provide instruction to other undergraduate students. Volunteer tutors provide one-on-one assistance to students who need help in their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness, Speech Communication
Wilson, Charmaine E.; Hochel, Sandra – 1995
The speech communication unit of the Department of Communications at the University of South Carolina at Aiken uses an exit interview to obtain students' evaluations of their educational experiences, to assess students' understanding of core concepts, and to evaluate the quality of students' communication skills. The three-member speech…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Interviews
Greenstreet, Robert W. – 1988
To garner administrative support and to develop meaningful public relations in the academic, scholastic, and local communities, individual events program directors should focus their efforts on things over which they have control. First, directors should develop behavioral objectives for individual events programs which are consistent with the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Debate, Educational Improvement, Extracurricular Activities
Schwartz, Sandra R.; And Others – 1983
A study was designed to develop an empathy training program for health professionals that would (1) improve selected predictive, behavioral, and achieved empathetic communication skills for a sample group of registered nurses; (2) evaluate the effectiveness of the training program in attaining its stated goals; and (3) develop a program that could…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Empathy, Inservice Education, Interpersonal Relationship
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Gjerdingen, Dennis; Manning, F. David – Volta Review, 1991
This paper offers an endorsement of mainstream placements for adolescents with severe and profound hearing impairments, describes successful mainstreaming at Clarke School for the Deaf (Massachusetts) in classrooms using spoken and written English, points out roadblocks that must be negotiated for successful mainstream education, and outlines…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, Deafness, Educational Principles
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