Student scores on listening tests increased as a result of a 45-minute class discussion on listening skills and a high-incentive condition: telling students that if they did not score well on the test, a written report on listening would be required. (PD)

Oral paraphrase is presented as an informal and versatile strategy for assessing and enhancing listening comprehension in mainstreamed students with language/learning disabilities. Approaches to assessing the listening comprehension demands of individual classrooms and using various dimensions of paraphrasing to enhance language comprehension and…

Investigated a means for improving listening comprehension through the use of visualization. Performance on a listening comprehension test was significantly better among students who had used the visualization strategies. (Author/VWL)

Surveys research in the field of listening and explores the relationships between listening and reading. (JM)

The children's use of cohesion in spoken narratives was compared across three groups of children all between seven and 10 years old: normal, language disordered with good story comprehension, and language disordered with poor story comprehension. Good comprehending language disordered and normal children used similar linguistic cohesive…

Lists and discusses factors affecting listening comprehension. List was compiled from a literature survey, consulting a cross-section of teachers working at secondary and tertiary levels, and questioning students who had just finished their secondary education. (EKN)

Discusses use of linguistic concepts from the point of view of stimulation therapy and indices of recovery. (MM)

Testing of patients with bilateral asymmetrical hearing losses for differences in speech discrimination under varying listening conditions showed detrimental interaction between ears. Also, when difference between ears was greater, speech discrimination was better, and the greater the impairment in better ear, the greater results obtained by…

Compares four notetaking styles by teaching them to groups of students and analyzing differences in notetaking ability before and after instruction. (MS)

Research reported in this paper was performed by HumRRO Division No. 3 (Recruit Training), Presidio of Monterey, California, under Department of Army contract with the George Washington University.

Describes the development of explanation in children's story telling which is compared with the level of comprehension revealed in responses to questions about events in the story. (JOW)

Thirteen visually impaired college students were exposed to three modes of speech presentation in a counterbalance order: normal speech, accelerated speech, and compressed speech. Results showed a significant trend toward better performance on the accelerated over the normal mode, and on the compressed over both the accelerated and normal modes.…

Two studies examined age-related declines in the functioning of working memory. Negative correlations between age and measures of working memory were found. These relations were attenuated by measures of storage capacity, processing efficiency, coordination effectiveness, and simple comparison speed. The greatest attenuation occurred with simple…

The second article in a two-part series (Hustad and Beukelman, 2001) reports on a study that examined effects of experimentally imposed topic cues, alphabet cues, and combined cues on listener comprehension of severely dysarthritic speech. Consistent with earlier intelligibility results, combined cues resulted in higher comprehension. Findings…