Tests were administered to obtain comparative data on the contentive verbal language of three-, four-, and five-year-old black children. (GW)

This workbook explores ways to improve dialogue so as to enhance communication and self-knowledge. The text is divided into 7 chapters. Chapter 1 opens by asking the reader to describe what "talk" is and to relate conversations the reader had during the past week. It offers exercises on listening, and on understanding the context of…

This study explores interrelationships among ratings by conversational partners and independent observers of empathy, warmth, and genuineness, and relates these ratings to partners' dialogue patterns. The results support the hypothesis that one of the parameters of temporal congruence, switching pauses, relates significantly to ratings of warmth…

This paper examines three of the many practices which push Chicano students into the rear of the classrooms and out of the schools as soon as the law allows. (Author/RK)

The importance of discussion in a child's career education at school, at home, and in the community is described. (MS)

Uses three examples of children's spoken English to indicate the need to teach children organized, sequential speech. (DD)

This paper reexamines some theoretical and methodological questions related to the concept of the regulating role of speech. The work of Vygotskey, Piaget, Luria and Wozniak is considered. (ST)

Counselor trainees' verbal behavior in two initial interview settings, one each with an active and passive client, was significantly different. Verbal behavior was viewed from two perspectives; along the dimension of broad classification by categories of behavior and along the dimension of 3-6 second units of verbal interaction. (Author)

First explains what is meant by "metalinguistic awareness" as a special dimension of language experience and its seeming importance in education; then describes a conception of the function of "play" in general and play with language in particular; and asks how educators might encourage play with language in school. (Author/JM)

The present paper reports an investigation of the paralinguistic cues manifested by a speaker when encoding confidence'' and doubt'' and of attributions made to the speaker by observers exposed to these cues. (Author)

Results support previous research which shows that the vocal behavior of young children can be controlled by social stimuli. (Authors/CB)

The characters of this study were two boys in a class for pupils with learning disabilities. After an initial assessment, which revealed that the inappropriate verbalizations occurred about twice each day, the peer-manager, contingent on each inappropriate remark, moved away from the subject to another desk explaining to the subject why he was…