This guide suggests a number of activities for the development of listening and speaking skills. It contains learning activities for kindergarten through grade 12 in aural comprehension, listening participation, auditory discrimination, speaking participation, delivery in speaking, and content in speaking. The guide is one of several planned for a…

Teaching style of junior and senior high teachers was investigated through student perceptions of "good" and "bad" teachers. Nearly 500 sets of unstructured, raw student comments were content analyzed from a communication standpoint. The four major dimensions of the communication framework were: Social Aspects, Presentation, Expressive Aspects,…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the oral questioning process in elementary school classrooms and to attempt to determine the relationship of certain selected factors to the oral questioning process. The sample consisted of 60 elementary school science teachers teaching the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Questions were classified into…

A course designed to aid the student in developing effective skills for critical listening and listening for comprehension of ideas. Clear articulation, effective voice production, acceptable pronunciation, pitch variation, rhythm and phrasing are also practiced for cultural growth and social maturity. The course outline consists of: I.…

This paper considers 12 paintings which are a cross-section of the art work done by a kindergarten class of 5-year-olds in an attempt to support the following assertions: that there is a qualitative correspondence between the level of maturity evidenced in the paintings and in their speaking about them; that the degree of development in both…

Volume 6 of this refresher course, designed for use by United States Armed Forces Intelligence Units, consists of 10 area-background, situation lessons. The primary objectives are to maintain and develop aural comprehension and oral fluency, reading ability, and writing ability in the Slovenian language. Materials presented in the course are…

Volume 7 of this refresher course, designed for use by United States Armed Forces Intelligence Units, consists of 10 area-background, situation lessons. The primary objectives are to maintain and develop aural comprehension and oral fluency, reading ability, and writing ability in the Slovenian language. Materials presented in the course are…

THIS STUDY GUIDE, THE FIRST PART OF A NINTH-GRADE RHETORIC GUIDE, USED THE STUDENT'S PAST EXPERIENCE IN PREVIOUS RHETORIC COURSES AS A BASIS UPON WHICH TO EXPAND HIS KNOWLEDGE OF SEMANTICS AND EMPHASIS IN WRITING. EXAMPLES WERE PROVIDED OF THE WRITING OF MARK TWAIN AND CHARLES DICKENS AND DIRECTED THE STUDENT TO ANSWER DISCUSSION QUESTIONS IN…

WRITINGS OF MARK TWAIN AND CHARLES DICKENS WERE REFERRED TO IN THIS TEACHER'S GUIDE IN RHETORIC AS EXAMPLES FOR REVIEWING CONCEPTS IN WRITING. IN THE FIRST PART, QUESTIONS FOLLOWED EACH EXAMPLE TO LEAD THE STUDENT TO THE CONVICTION THAT EACH WRITER WRITES FROM WHAT HE KNOWS, AND TO SUGGEST A NUMBER OF WAYS IN WHICH AN AUTHOR MAY ARRANGE HIS…

This text contains 50 lessons in Dagbani for the student of Dagbani as a second language. The principal emphasis of the lessons is on developing skills in the spoken language, and study is preferable with a native speaker of Dagbani. The use of English is to be avoided except when absolutely necessary. Because of the attention given to oral…

Discusses the use of "talk" to prepare students for reading; as an instrument for learning and thinking; and as an instrument for social and emotional growth. A taped discussion is presented: seven girls who speak five different languages discuss a story they have read. (EJS)

Describes five conversations for memorizing, designed for students of English in grades 8-10. Designed for teaching vocabulary and structure, they are based on a particular textbook, but leave room for teacher and student initiative. Types include question-answer, judging, argumentation, and defending a position. (IFS/WGA)

Defining course objectives and testing these objectives are inseparable components of the education process. The development of a model using eleven language functions as the basis for testing communication in a second language is described. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Surveys some of the persistent difficulties hampering progress in the area of interpersonal communication inquiry and notes existing opportunities for advancing communication research. (MH)