Suggestions are offered for gifted students making verbal presentations. Guidelines address such aspects as the introduction; beginning of the presentation; timing; use of breaks; eye contact; simulations, role playing and games; communication; relevance; enthusiasm; humor; audio-visuals; and the ending. (CL)

Tested three explanations for the differential impact of verbal and nonverbal cues on perceptions of counselor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness: cue availability, vividness, and salience-vividness. Results suggest cue availability is not a compelling explanation for the power of nonverbal communications, vividness accounts for…

The communicative interactions of 32 mildly delayed and normally developing preschoolers were recorded during free play in a mainstreamed program. Analyses of syntactic complexity, semantic diversity, functional aspects of speech, and the use of selected discourse devices indicated that mildly delayed children adjusted important characteristics of…

Examines two strategies which Blacks use to bring about cooperation in the Black community: (1) "indirection," which makes use of humorous messages, avoidance, and signifying to reduce conflicts, and (2) "neutralization," which involves the use of verbal justifications and excuses to stabilize situations in which disagreements may arise over…

Presents suggestions for assembling a musical tape made up of 20 popular songs that reflect the characteristics of five potential stages in a marital relationship. Illustrates how therapists use the tape in marital therapy and discusses how educators can instruct students to use the tape in their practice. (LLL)

The author comments on clarifying the meaning behind teachers' use of language. He points out that information collected through classroom observation would be more useful if teachers were included in the interpretation. (MD)

The performance of 15 pairs of learning disabled and nondisabled peers (7-11 years old) on a persuasion task and their recorded conversations during a cooperative construction task were compared. Results suggested that the groups may be distinguished on the basis of their verbal communications. (Author/CL)

No one has ever been able to look into the language space, nor has anyone been able to measure the phenomenon of consciousness without the interference of an observer. This article changes the situation, showing that from now on it is possible to produce measures of consciousness without the presence of classical observation devices. The…

This paper is a direct continuation of the experimental evaluation of the basic space-hypothesis explored in Real Time Imaging of the Rotation Mechanism Producing Interview-based Language Spaces. This project has required that different pars, the spaces of the A- and O-domains, be related and contrasted. In this paper the focus is on the…

The article emphasizes the importance of consistency of meaning in communication through verbal and nonverbal behavior. Teachers' intent to encourage self-directed learning was measured using Smith's Teacher Facilitation of Self-Direction Inventory. The Loss Observation System was used to analyze non-verbal behavior. (AG)

A persuasion scale assessing counselor conviction and client agreement was used to rate 900 counselor statements. The 24 highest rated and 15 lowest rated persuasive statements were fed into a graphic level recorder. Differences in the graphs of high- and low- persuasive statements indicated that loudness is a characteristic of persuasion. (Author)

Presents a theory of teaching basic English grammar in freshmen composition courses as a means of teaching students how to write coherent sentences and comprehend English syntax. (TO)