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Murgia, Silvia; Webster, JosseMia; Cutiva, Lady Catherine Cantor; Bottalico, Pasquale – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Good verbal signals and low background noise are key factors for all children to maximize understanding of what is being taught. Classroom shape, surroundings, and even furnishings change how the environment "sounds" and how speech is "heard" in the classroom. Classroom acoustics is perhaps one of the most important,…
Descriptors: Intelligibility, Speech Communication, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
Johnson, Mary Canice – 1979
Dynamics of discussion in the classroom are analyzed based on data from 64 classrooms in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Among the discourse problems considered are the separation of answers from questions, the relationship between the presupposition of an utterance and the speaker/hearer assumptions, and the relationship between utterance form and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Discussion
Frechette, Phyllis – 1989
A case study examined the classroom behavior of a third grader named Andrea. Andrea's lips moved but no response could be heard. Because Andrea was an appealing child, her lack of oral communication became a challenge for her teacher. Members of the Educators Forum supported feelings that Andrea needed to be helped to use oral language. An…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques