The major problem investigated was to assess the effectiveness of an instructional procedure designed to develop skill in questioning, as a teaching technique, by prospective science teachers. Subproblems investigated were to determine: (1) if skill developed during this instructional sequence would transfer to the student teaching experience; and…

Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project for grades three and four, this second of two units on communication systems begins with a lesson which reinforces the concept that in order to communicate we must all have the same meaning for the signals used. Lessons 1 through 3 deal with the various kinds of communication signals used by…

This ten chapter book is designed to provide high school students with an understanding of basic communication processes. The first five chapters include discussions of language development, function, and acquisition in relation to both human and non-human communication. The sixth chapter contains specimen linguistic analyses of speech and…

The author presents a summary of selected theoretical concepts and empirical evidence from the field of psychology, relating to the meaning of the term "meaning." He first summarizes experimental techniques for the investigation of meaning in terms of six approaches: conditioning methods, word association methods, word association/verbal learning…

There is a great deal of speech communication work going on in western Canada, but in higher education, little direct teaching of the subject. This essential fact is the focus of this paper. The author presents an overview of Canadian history and the work of her writers, and seeks reasons for the absence of speech as a separate subject in academic…

Human communication research has identified and tested numerous aspects of interpersonal transactions, but at present there exists no empirically verifiable data as to how people end these transactions. This study is concerned with the rhetoric of goodbye--determining and assessing the peculiar behaviors, both verbal and non-verbal, with which…

The model in this study illustrates a theory of the language user's performance based on an analysis of the fundamental speech episode, the dialogue. The model presents an outline of conditions for the description of strategic aspects of communication within a dynamic framework, which are dependent on the orientation of the communicator toward a…

This book examines dimensions of nonverbal human behavior through the "immediacy,""power," and "responsiveness" metaphors. Human feelings and attitudes as conveyed by variations upon these metaphors involve approach-avoidance behavior. The author defines these metaphors as like-dislike; potency-status (or a controlling versus a dependent…

Ways in which communications about educational finance can be custom-tailored to particular social groups was the subject of this investigation. Four socioeconomic groups in Dayton, Ohio were selected for analysis: low income blacks, low income whites, upper income blacks, and upper income whites. Fifty individuals were selected from each group to…

The author suggests that we are moving into an era where skills in persuasion are considered prerequisite to other management skills and discusses the emphasis on interpersonal communication as a continuing process that serves the purpose of making known and available to an industrial group the resources of individual human beings. He cites the…

The author points out differences between the historical-critical and the quantitative-empirical methodologies in speech communication. He proposes analysis of postpersuasive discourse as an intermediary ground encompassing these two approaches. Postpersuasive communication is conceptualized as the elements of ethos (credibility) which are…

Three-member groups were formed from students in an introductory college biology course. Each group undertook four problem-solving sessions which were tape-recorded. Transcripts were used to analyze verbal communication behaviors during the sessions. A category system containing four task categories, four negative social emotional categories, and…

This paper presents some teaching components which might serve as a basis for developing and improving teaching skills. Five interactive teaching functions are studied: managing classroom behavior, asking questions, interacting verbally, communicating nonverbally, and reinforcing pupil behavior. Managing classroom behavior deals with the teacher's…

This study examined three potential situational determinants of children's question-asking: (1) the presence or absence of a peer; (2) whether or not the children are given tactual access to the materials being used to induce questions; and (3) whether these materials are presented three-dimensionally (as objects) or two-dimensionally (as…

This curriculum guide outlines and discusses communication skills which are important in pursuing a career. The guide, suggested for high school classrooms where the students do not have role models at home upon which to base skill development, lists nine course objectives and briefly sketches instructional units for voice and diction,…