Experiments were devised to determine teacher effectiveness on the basis of ability to communicate, on the assumption that no relevant learning will occur if communication is faulty. A series of communication games involved an encoder (teacher) and decoder (student) to provide tentative answers to the questions: 1) Are there individual differences…

To investigate the effects of interaction analysis feedback on the verbal behavior of student teachers, 40 college seniors enrolled in an elementary teaching program were randomly selected and divided into experimental and control groups. Following training in interaction analysis during an academic quarter, subjects were assigned to eight…

This study was designed to learn if self-monitoring of a verbal behavior will affect the rate of a behavior and whether behaviors selected for increase will increase and behaviors selected for decrease will decrease. Each of the five subjects was asked to select from his own audio tape recordings one desirable and one undesirable behavior to be…

A communication arc from A to B represents the transmission of a single message from the first system A to the second system B. What are all the ingredients of a communication arc required for the sending of a message? What compatibility conditions between these two systems must be satisfied in order for communication to take place? Further, what…

This descriptive research study had as its major objective the development of a category system through which the teacher's physical motions in relation to his verbal actions could be analyzed with a high degree of reliability. The performances of five elementary teachers at the College Demonstration School were recorded on video tape. Narrative…

To observe the impact of teachers' verbal behavior upon the verbal behavior of students, 12 intermediate grade teachers and their classes were identified in 10 rural schools near Fresno, California. The 10 schools were chosen to participate in the study because of their in-service teacher program. Teachers from five randomly selected schools…

The Canadian Department of Communications project on teleconferencing commenced in 1972, to meet what was foreseen to be a developing federal-government need to provide improved group communications between headquarters and outlying divisions. Section one of this report presents background justification for investigating teleconferencing as a…

Analyses the advertising slogan and its relationship to the various functions of language: expressive, incitative, referential, phatic, metalinguistic, and poetic. (AM)

The effect of differential exposure to a referent on children's communication effectiveness was investigated with 40 boys and girls from grades K and 2 who were given one or three opportunities to explore a maze-like construction. (Author)

Ten four-year-old boys explained how a toy worked to "high varbal" and "low verbal" two-year-old boys. Results showed that the listener's linguistic ability and conversational responsiveness influenced preschoolers' speech modifications. (Author/JMB)

Examines the traditional and prevailing view that teacher questions are effective stimulants to student thought. Through an examination of research, practice, and theory related to question use, the author develops a counterargument that questions inhibit thought and discussion, or at least do not stimulate student participation. (RH)

This article presents a general purpose taxonomy of verbal response modes and explains how three dimensions of interpersonal roles-attentiveness, acquiescence, and presumptiousness can be derived from it. (MP)

Outlines points for achieving credibility in public speaking situations. Available from: Association Management, American Society of Association Executives, 1101 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. (MH)

Verbal interactions of three 2-year-old boys attending a play group were analyzed from videotapes made approximately 8 months apart. During this period, rates of interaction increased significantly, speakers learned to select message content more appropriate to the listener, and participants learned to watch each other more often. (Author/JMB)

The article discusses various techniques which teachers can use to foster student assertiveness. (NQ)