Investigation concentrated on verbal and nonverbal variables of child-mother interactions as it pertains to the child's language development. (MB)

Results of the inservice workshop indicated that there was a decrease in routine and cognitive/memory verbal interaction while convergent and divergent thinking verbal interaction increased. Evaluative thinking verbal interaction remained stable. (Author)

Investigates time spent speaking by teacher and by pupils, the length of pupil classroom speeches, the range of individual differences in frequency and length of speech, the distribution of voluntary and nonvoluntary pupil speeches and their distribution among three categories: management, substantitive, and prohibitory. (Author)

Describes the Mother Child Home Program wherein Toy Demonstrators" show mothers how to increase daily verbal interaction with their children. (MB)

Discusses the rationale for minicourses and microteaching and the value of their use in methods courses to help prospective teachers acquire competence in basic teaching skills. (RB)

This article illustrates several techniques to assist teachers in objectively evaluating what is going on in their classroom. (Author)

Purpose of this essay is to provide groundwork for further investigation of the concept of communication as dialogue. Contains extensive footnotes. (Author/DR)

Discusses Benjamin Lee Whorf's belief that each man's language shpes his thoughts and experiences. (SW)

Compared with teachers of "conventional" science courses, teachers who attended a summer workshop and then taught Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) materials tended to increase the amount of indirect verbal influence used at the beginning of the school year, becoming more direct later, and asking more high-level questions (hypothesizing…