A collection of 20 sample units for use in implementing an effective ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) program. The collection includes units for the first through sixth grade in science, arithmetic, spelling, social studies, and language. Throughout these units special emphasis is placed on using linguistics and adapting oral-aural…

Establishment of Southwest Minnesota State College, a new 4-year college, has made possible the creation of an American Language Skills course to replace traditional freshmen English. Program emphasis is on integration and coordination of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Students receive lectures on the reading process and on the…

This study recorded and analyzed data from 758 questionnaires completed by public elementary teachers from seven counties in West Virginia. The purposes of the study were to survey the time spent in oral language instruction, to survey amount of teacher training in methods of language arts instruction, and to examine the relationship of teacher…

This monograph defines communication in terms of five characteristics and provides a description of the communication process that is intended to benefit both teachers and students. Following the answer to "What Is Communication?" in chapter 1, the contents include: "The Leader as Communicator," which considers some ways to bring people together…

Interpersonal communication is a complex study of speaking and listening, and of verbally and nonverbally interacting with human beings in a one-to-one basis, in a small group, or within a large group or crowd. It is a new approach to teaching the skills of conversation, group discussion, and public speaking. An outline for teaching an…

Public utterances that defend illegal actions on moral grounds which supersede legal grounds display distinct rhetorical features. Rhetorical criticism of Thoreau's "Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859) and the Antony Towne and William Stringfellow letter in defense of the Berrigan brothers (1972) reveals five similar rhetorical strategies. These…

This paper describes a course conducted at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, during 1971-73 which was designed to fill the speech communication needs of vocationally oriented students or "technologists" preparing to work in Indiana industries. Most of the students had completed a basic speech course; thus the approach, behavioral objectives,…

Presented are 11 papers given at a study institute on oral language skills antecedent to reading for educators of the speech, hearing, and learning disabled. Doris Johnson, in a paper entitled "Interrelationships Between Auditory Disorders and Higher Levels of Learning", stresses the importance of auditory comprehension for language development. A…

This study compares oral language production with the written realization of this production for a group of white and a group of Negro second graders attending public schools in Austin and San Antonio, Texas, respectively. Oral language production was assessed using the Gloria and David Oral English test, an individually administered audiovisual…

GRADES OR AGES: Secondary grades. SUBJECT MATTER: Oral communications. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The central portion of the guide is divided into five units: public speaking, voice and diction, drama, oral interpretation, and radio-television. Each unit is in straight text or list form. The guide is offset printed and perfect-bound…

The author reports the results of a study based on an assumption that there might be an association of certain acoustic variables with the telling of lies. Twenty subjects were asked to perform two tasks, each involving four short oral responses, one of which was a lie. The responses were subjected to spectrographic analysis, and the task of the…

The study sought to (1) furnish data to be used in further language-error analyses and studies of causes of errors in language acquisition, (2) provide specific data for a basis in constructing pedagogical materials and proficiency tests to be used in teaching English to Mexican American children, and (3) determine whether bilingual or monolingual…

In an analysis of the research literature on specific teacher behaviors which focused on oral language or speaking, no studies were found which could meet fully the criteria proposed for inclusion. Sources of problems lay in (1) the absence of an explicit theory of language underlying the study or series of propositions; (2) the failure to get…

A revised version of the 1968 Michigan Speech Association Curriculum guide (ED 026 391), this volume is intended to provide the student between the ages of 11 and 14 with learning experiences which enable the student to acquire and utilize oral communication skills. The guide is divided into six units--interpersonal communication, group…

To ascertain if there are significant differences in the frequency of use of movables and connectors in the oral speech patterns of mature and immature children from middle and low socioeconomic levels, 60 beginning first grade children were studied. The Warner-Meeker-Eells Index of Status Characteristics classified children into middle and low…