Explores the debate over the value of literature in the English curriculum. (HOD)

Four experiments conceived with children's responses to, and judgements of ambiguous verbal messages were presented, demonstrating that 5-to-9 year olds were more likely to respond differently to ambiguous and unambiguous messages if they were prevented from pointing at potential referents. (Author/DST)

Humorously discusses the problem of discerning when students are being honest in their writing and how to deal with the problems their honesty sometimes presents. (DF)

Using a communication rules perspective, the study first describes group cultures of two work groups within a large organization, then reports group members' evaluations of the descriptions based on their groups' operative communication rules. (JW)

Studies that have questioned how children best demonstrate their ability to discriminate pitch are discussed, and practical applications of the findings are examined. One specific performance-based response that is not necessarily a good indicator of ability to discriminate pitch is singing. (RM)

Assessed whether counselor trainees who received discrimination training would score better on measures of counseling performance. Results showed treatment decreased the extent to which counselors questioned clients and expressed their own opinions and increased action-oriented statements aimed at encouraging client problem solving. (JAC)

This analogue study was designed to determine whether physical distance between female interviewees and a female interviewer affected verbal productivity when interviewees discussed academic, social, and personal topics. Subjects talked longer about personal topics at an intermediate distance than they did when seated close to or far away. (Author)

This study aims to investigate Instant Messaging from the new rhetorical genre perspective. Considering IM as a primary genre (Bakhtin, 1986) I intend to examine its social motive and social and textual features. Also, using Vygotsky's (1978, 1986) concept of situated learning, I will explain how IM users learn the genre to communicate through it.…

Gifted females' lack of verbal participation in lessons within their elementary school classrooms was perceived as an obstacle to maximization of their learning potential. The goal of the study was to identify causations of the girls' reticence to demonstrate verbalization skills that were commensurate with those of their male counterparts and to…

A withdrawn adolescent, an outpatient at a mental health clinic, was the subject for this case report. Baseline data were collected on the frequency of the subjects' verbalizations. The subject was then instructed to record his own verbal behavior. The subject "earned" his way out of the mental health clinic by increasing his verbal behavior to an…

Results from a 2 x 2 factorial design with a single control group revealed that microcounseling subjects gained significantly more in criterion performance than the control group. There was virtually no difference in the effectiveness of the two micromodels, and behavioral supervision was somewhat more successful than recall interrogation. (Author)

This study attempted to simulate learning conditions for art activities in which verbal language variables as predispositions for learning in art could be systematically varied and observations made of their effects on aesthetic quality of art products, aesthetic judgmental abilities, and art acceptance attitudes of early adolescent art students.…

Examines some of the rituals, rites of passage, and other sacred cows of our culture and suggests numerous exercises designed to help students sharpen their cultural consciousness. (TO)

Provides a basis for understanding the role of terminology in education, and suggests some ways in which terms may be employed to best advantage. The emphasis is on scientific terminology at the secondary level. (JR)

Eighty subjects were randomly assigned equally by sex to self-positive or self-negative discussion topic groups in which they either received or did not receive verbal comment from the interviewer. A silent interviewer produced less discrimination of self as a concept, and depending upon the positive or negative direction of subject verbalization…