This book is designed to improve one's listening skills. Listening is behavior governed by the same principles that govern all behavior. The total constellation of factors influencing such complex behaviors that often arise in the speaking-listening situation involve several levels and types of learning. Any attempt to understand auditors must be…

The adequacy of preventive education modalities in drug and alcohol education programs is questioned. Dilemmas facing students and teachers are discussed with the conclusion that communication must be accomplished within a common frame of reference for both the educator and student recipient. (BL)

Examines research which indicates that in the first days of life infants are able to elicit and respond to their mothers' behavior, however, it appears that the newborns exert more influence over the mothers' actions than the mothers exert over the infants' actions. (MH)

The study described in this volume investigated the talk of thirteen-year-old boys and girls, recorded while they were working in small groups on tasks set by their teachers. Specifically, research focused on the interplay between cognitive and communicative functions of speech in contexts planned for learning. "The Children and Their Talk"…