The following research investigates the effect that unprescribed conversation with native speakers of the target language had on learners' L2 listening comprehension skills at the beginning (n=21) and advanced intermediate levels of Spanish (n=27). Treatment groups completed two-thirty-minute conversations with native speakers via…

This study explored the causes of the reverse modality effect when learning from multimedia instruction. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups (visual text or spoken text). The findings revealed a reverse modality effect wherein that those studying visual text outperformed those studying spoken text on three assessments. Further…

Discusses issues related to orality, aurality, and literacy in the teaching and understanding of mathematics. Also discusses ritual and tradition in mathematics instruction. (MM)

Described is a program of hearing therapy for children whose hearing losses are detected in infancy. Residual hearing is utilized and speech is taught through the auditory sense. (KW)

The author suggests some methods to encourage the language student to improvise his oral answers to class questions. One way is to have the student make up fanciful answers, the other is to use key words in sentences relating to a text. (CK)

The audio-lingual method of foreign language instruction predominant in the United States emphasizes the lingual at the expense of the aural. Language acquisition is viewed as verbal behavior. Instead of a response-oriented learning approach, a stimulus-oriented one should be used, with listening as the focal skill from which speaking would…

Eighty college students with learning disabilities were evaluated via intelligence tests and auditory language tests. In the 63 students with auditory language problems, persistent problems were discovered in discrimination, comprehension, memory, retrieval, sequencing, syntax, formulation, and articulation. The major area of language problems was…

This study demonstrates that listeners use lexical knowledge in perceptual learning of speech sounds. Dutch listeners first made lexical decisions on Dutch words and nonwords. The final fricative of 20 critical words had been replaced by an ambiguous sound, between [f] and [s]. One group of listeners heard ambiguous [f]-final words (e.g.,…

This study investigates the educational consequences of utilizing listen-response-compare mode in a college level language laboratory. (Author)

The development of the total communication concept is traced, manual and oral elements in the total communication process are reviewed, and research findings from a study of total communication programs for the deaf in the U.S. are presented. (SB)

Scholars and consultants have offered a multitude of definitions of listening. One group defines listening as an ongoing, nonstatic process by which spoken language is converted into meanings in the mind. The other group, the sequentialists, view listening as a linear sequence of events in which one aspect is dependent upon a preceding aspect.…