The purpose of this study was to link consultant and teacher verbal interaction patterns to consultation outcomes. Participants were 4 consultants, 20 teachers, and 20 elementary school students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Audiotaped Problem Analysis Interviews (PAIs) from Project PASS (Promoting Academic Success in Students)…

This paper investigates routine "opening turns" in telephone conversations, examining their variety and adaptability, and extending E. A. Schegloff's model to account for them. Following a review of previous research on telephone openings, the paper describes the notion of "reduction" as offered by M. R. Whalen and D. H.…

The teacher, a participant observer in the total communication environment of the classroom, can, through systematic observation of that communication, attempt a change in behaviors which will result in an improved teaching-learning environment. One systematic way of looking at classroom communication involves the distinction between the nature of…

The spoken word is central to human communication. (MM)

Groups of elementary school children who observed an adult model making self-blame statements made significantly more imitative self-blame responses on a test 7 months later than did a no-model control group. (MH)

Learning should involve a continuing process of free communication between individuals or groups. (AD)

Knowledge of his subject means little to a teacher who cannot communicate will. (IR)

An attempt was made to categorize the levels of thinking of teachers and students, as revealed by their verbal behavior. (Author/CK)

Three studies with elementary handicapped and nonhandicapped students demonstrated that verbal reprimands were effective in altering disruptive behavior when delivered with eye contact, with a grip on students' shoulders, and by standing closer to the student. Reprimands delivered to one member of a pair reduced the disruptive behavior of both…

Examined patterning of relational control in families of schizophrenic patients, and relationship between control in the family and the course of the illness. Transcripts of conversations among 17 schizophrenic outpatients and their families were coded into Relational Control Coding System. Found rigid, one-up messages from family members to…

Claims that everyday discourse is in fact richly metaphorical and that, through the operation of metaphor, people fictionalize as they talk. Argues that because literary writing has been dominated by culture and curriculum, English teachers have not been encouraged to explore aspects of language that are the core of how people think and behave.…

The effect of two types of verbal consequences, rule-following feedback and task performance feedback, on rule-induced insensitivity to programmed schedules of reinforcement were examined. Rule-following feedback could be either accurate or non-contingently positive. The task involved moving a sign through a grid using telegraph keys operating on…