Suggests areas of future research for oral interpretation scholars: (1) the effects of performance on classroom audience and performers, (2) performance in nonacademic contexts, (3) the functions of nondramatic performance, and (4) the history of performed literature. (PD)

Discusses the application of competency-based instruction to the teaching of theater arts in secondary schools. Advocates a four-step process of goal identification; procedure, content, and method selection; student participation; and evaluation of goal achievement. (JMF)

Lists 157 significant titles relevant to speech literature of the South for the year 1977 in the following areas: public address--bibliography, history and culture, and practitioners; theater--history, bibliography, and criticism; speech education; and mass communication--educational/instructional, history/bibliography, programming/criticism,…

The author describes the evolution of the American musical since 1750 and emphasizes the often overlooked importance of the orchestrator. She discusses the talents of several extraordinarily gifted musicians. (KC)

Presents a sample of college and university screenwriting programs for writers and directors. Includes opinions of faculty and professionals in the field of writing on the specific objectives of screenwriting courses, as well as methods of teaching. (JMF)

Describes the Danish Film School's program in screenwriting. Three faculty members offer insights into their objectives in teaching and the emphasis they each place on various aspects of writing. (JMF)

Examines four types of film directing and the programs available to students wishing to pursue careers as directors. The categories of directing are feature films, independent films, sponsored films, and commercials. Limitations of existing programs are outlined. (JMF)

Describes a workshop held in Zambia in August 1979, to disseminate among performing artists and rural development workers skills for using the performing arts to communicate information on problems related to agriculture, health, and community development. Over 70 participants from the U.S., Canada, Botswana, Lesotho, Tanzania, Kenya, and Zambia…

Creative dramatics offer the educator a variety of uses in the development of children's language arts proficiency and psychomotor skill level. (LH)

A rolling gate fashioned in the form of a giant motorcycle is the most unique feature of a prize winning media center in one Minnesota school; and, in another, is a theater hailed as the most technically sophisticated in the Twin Cities area. (Author/MLF)

A course in which students learn French by producing and performing in French plays is described. Students were responsive and motivated to master the language. (CHK)

Synthesizes findings from three programs of theater education in three selected universities. Discusses faculty, curriculum, students, and program. Suggests ways of understanding this synthesis as a step toward building a model of theater education that could inform program development and program evaluation. (SR)

Argues that artists, educators, and researchers who love theater, children, and theater for children can help to secure a prominent place for theater and the other arts in the futures of children by engaging in arts-based educational research that is story-based, compelling, persuasive, and artful and that aims at a wide audience of fellow…

Presents a dialog among three English teachers concerning teaching performance poetry to ninth graders. (RS)

Reviews recent research findings concerning the benefits of Readers Theater for building oral reading accuracy and fluency and identifies key guidelines for instructional implementation. Presents recommendations and conclusions that place the focus on guidelines for classroom teachers who might want to experiment with Readers Theater as they work…