A study examined the differences between gender groups in different age groups and their relationships between talkaholic scores and communication styles. Subjects were 125 oral communication students at a midwestern university, who were asked to complete the Talkaholic Scale and Communication Style Instrument. Males were found to have a more…

This paper researched persuasive tactics used by college age females on college age males. Previous evidence indicates that nonverbal persuasion is more effective than verbal persuasion. The topics explored in previous research on persuasion consisted of physical attractiveness, indirect knowledge of influence, tactics used by children and college…

Teachers have always understood the critical significance of good teaching to their students' learning. However, the practical question for teachers is what this looks like in actual classroom lessons and how they shape a culture of authentic learning in schools, which prepares young people for tomorrow's world. Essentially, this paper establishes…

This paper presents a review of the literature on impression formation in face-to-face (FtF) and computer-mediated communication (CMC) and provides impression management recommendations for CMC users in a variety of environments. The first section provides an introduction to impression formation. Factors affecting impression formation in FtF and…

This textbook is designed to meet all the requirements for language teaching in the second school year. It contains exercises in spelling, transcription, dictation, and the rapid recognition of words frequently met in the young pupil's reading, as well as illustrated short stories and suggestions for conversation lessons.

Warns that we cannot mask the facts about man's relation to the biosphere by learning to say the right things to each other. (TO)

Multilevel visual models can make teaching and learning theories more easily understood. The idea of graphic visualizationas developed in this model utilizes three stages of abstract concept formation dealing with concrete visualization, abstract visualization, and abstract generalization, which would provide the learner with an intuitive grasp of…

Describes and explains an instrument (SATIC) developed at Florida State University which allows teachers to make an objective self-evaluation regarding verbal behavior. The instrument is designed to measure the type and amount of verbal behavior exhibited by a teacher during a lesson. (JR)

Describes efforts of the NIE to coordinate the fragmented information that is being produced on reading to help make Federal programs in that area more effective. (Author/GB)

The main tenet of the theory is that the minimal experimental situation for making psychological observations is a conversation. The theory is exemplified by work on learning and teaching using CASTE which is itself a physical embodiment of the theory in the form of a vehicle for observing conversations. (Author)

Preschool children in a free-play situation experienced one of two training sequences: saying then doing, or doing then saying. The effect of training on the development of a correspondence between children's verbal and nonverbal behaviors was examined. The say-do sequence produced higher levels of correspondence. (ST)

First-grade boys (N=260) were classified according to response style on a continuum of reflectivity-impulsivity using Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test. For all groups, performances were poorest under reward conditions and better under the punishment and reward plus punishment conditions. (ST)

Author discusses the ways in which communication in group therapy sessions is different from that of other social settings. (HB)

Children encounter differences in language environments at home and at school; the school's role is discussed in language education. (JB)