This study examined the office hour consultation between teaching assistants (TAs) and undergraduates from the participants' viewpoints. A total of 40 consultations involving five TAs from the economics department of a major American university were videotaped and transcribed. After dividing the consultations into three sections, namely initiating…

Over the last several years the increased speed of delivery in debate tournaments has made it difficult for judges to keep up with a debate during a round of competition. The responsibility for communication should be upon each debater to deliver his or her arguments, with intelligence, to the judge or critic. Debate is an oral communication…

A study examined the narrative structures present in one young girl's writing and the way those themes were incorporated into a group's oral story creation. Stories were collected during a summer reading and writing group as part of a qualitative study exploring narrative structures being used by preadolescent girls. Subjects were 14 girls from…

This book contains a collection of materials that can be used to improve the ability to relate to others. The first chapter discusses causes of conflict and how conflict habits develop. The second chapter discusses freeing ourselves from self-defeating habits. This chapter asserts that the imperfect expressive capacity of language is further…

Providing educational guidelines for the reduction of death anxiety has resulted in a dramatic increase in the literature concerning death education (DE). However, research evaluating DE programs has yielded ambiguous results. In this study, researchers performed a meta-analysis of various DE interventions to assess the effectiveness of DE…

This study compared preverbal children (ages 3-4) with severe language impairments who were difficult to engage (Group 1) with others who were readily engaged (Group 2). The study focused on transitional episodes of engagement and on frequency of clinician and child verbal communications and nonverbal acts within transitional episodes. Eight…

The achievement of excellence in communication is a function of both exposure to the best theory, research, and practice in communication, and the student's level of motivation to learn about communication. A major obstacle to managing conflict and interpersonal relationships successfully in general is the tendency people have to attribute…

Relationships between measures of sociometric status (SMS) and the behavior of preschool children were investigated. SMS was assessed through use of a comprehensive ranking technique that obtained data on each child from every other child in the sample. Measures of SMS included number of first nominations received (as "best friend"),…

Discusses nonstandard dialects, particularly Black English, in the classroom. (RM)

Criticizes psycholinguistic experiments where messages are presented in vacuo and where the linguist has no intention of conveying a message to the subject, who fills in his own contextual frame. When utterances were presented with pictures, they were remembered more accurately than when they were repeated ten times. (SCC)

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the differential application of reinforcing and punishing light cues in the manipulation of verbal behavior and leadership status in small groups. (Author)

Both sides of advertising--the insidious and the artistic--should be studied in every composition class.

Reports on a study designed to investigate the variables of greeting behavior. (MH)

Because students can express orally what they find difficult to communicate on paper, Davis worked out a system employing the language lab as a way of directing verbal communication to written for his writing course. Tape recorders aided students in compositon, organization, revision, and proofreading. (SC)

Five different maps are examined to illustrate the variety of appraches necessary for the analysis of land form from topographic maps. (JR)