By using childhood games, examines extended speech in the natural discourse of kindergarten children and first- fourth-, and eighth-grade students. With a comparable knowledge base, younger children volunteered less information, focused more on game actions, and more frequently omitted rules outlining how games are set up or concluded. (Author/BJD)

Discusses steps college-level speech communication educators can take to improve the quality of education in the nation's elementary and secondary schools. (PD)

Addresses problems of sex bias in communication studies, specifically in teaching public speaking and rhetoric. Briefly surveys major anthologies of speeches published from 1896-1981, noting that only 52 speeches (or speech excerpts) by women appear in 45 volumes. (PD)

Three levels of metacommunication knowledge and five factors that influence the understanding of speaker meaning in oral language were identified in pilot interviews with children and adolescents. (HOD)

Explores the relationship between arguing and verbal aggression and the benefits accruing from argumentativeness. Found that students who are highly argumentative are not easily provoked to using verbal aggression in an argument, supporting the view that verbal aggression often stems from a lack of skill in arguing. (PD)

Describes a nonthreatening method for introducing videotaping to a speech class by allowing students to construct videotaped projects, such as news programs or interviews in groups. (HTH)

Presents a short summary report of the results of a national survey, commissioned by the SCA Committee on Assessment and Testing, to determine the range and degree of assessment occurring in colleges and universities and to evaluate the methods used to assess the communication skills of college students. (PD)

Presents the results of a survey of communication and theatre departments on budget changes, faculty demographics, student enrollment, department names, and general problems resulting from the state of the economy. (PD)

Describes the development and implementation of an International Visiting Fellowship in communication studies at the Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education, Sydney, Australia, from 1979-83. (PD)

Describes an internship program in the communication arts. Offers suggestions for implementing and monitoring internship programs. (PD)

A course involving the production of a play in French is described as an illustration of a method of making the study of foreign literatures more attractive to college undergraduates. (Author/RM)

A number of exercises are given based on "Le Petit Prince" which are not only structure drills for grammar practice but are also reading comprehension exercises. (Author/RM)

Defines participant observation as a research methodology whereby investigation is conducted in the subjects' natural habitat over a long period of time in which the researcher shares as intimately as possible in the life and activities of the subjects being studied. (Available from the Journal of Applied Communications Research, Ed., Drawer NJ,…