This paper discusses reasons why oral storytelling is a useful technique and presents step-by-step instructions for how to tell a story. Among the advantages discussed are: immediacy, relevancy, versatility, lack of visual stimuli to limit conceptualization, and eye contact. Techniques are presented for three components of the storytelling…

DEVELOPED FOR USE IN THE MADISON, WISCONSIN, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THIS GUIDE FOR GRADES K-6 PROVIDES THE FRAMEWORK FOR AN INTEGRATED LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM WITH EMPHASIS ON LISTENING AND SPEAKING. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM ARE STATED IN TERMS OF THE EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE AVERAGE STUDENT. A FLOW CHART, ARRANGED FROM AGES 5-12, SHOWS THE…

This book covers many practical aspects of language learning. The first section entitled "The 'Whys' of Language Learning" discusses such topics as the following: (1) everyone can learn a language; (2) easier and more difficult elements in a language and classification of languages according to difficulty for speakers of English; (3) length of…

A description of the sophomore level speech communication fundamentals course offered at Wauwatosa East High School in Wisconsin is presented in this paper. Following a statement of a philosophy of teaching communication theory, the major portion of the paper contains descriptions of the five units of the course: (1) communication concepts and…

The activities involved in coding conversation sequences and the lack of attention given to their systematic validation within the field of speech communication are discussed in this paper. The paper first reviews briefly the assumptions underlying relational coding and the implications of viewing these activities as practical accomplishments. It…

A "System for coding Integration and Differentiation messages" in group communication (SID) was developed, based on the theoretical and empirical work of W. C. Schutz, W. Bennis and H. Shepard, and A. Koestler. In SID, integrating messages are defined as those dealing with material internal to the group and having positive affect, or…

A sociolinguistic analysis of texts is advocated for expanding an oral interpreter's creation of an event from written texts. Two studies are reviewed that suggest that language choices are related to the speaker's purpose, thought processes, role, cultural expectations, and sex. The specific area of study suggested as highly useful for…

The concept of inherency is an important issue in contemporary academic debate, although little attention has been paid to the underlying rationale behind its use. A review of the literature suggests that one purpose of inherency is to demonstrate that the cause of the problem that the affirmative position isolates is accurately described. A…

In order to test the conclusions of previous studies of the informal communication system commonly known as the "grapevine," a study was conducted of the flow of one unit of information over the organizational grapevine. One of the experimenters planted a unit of information with two secretaries in the departmental office of Speech and…

Constructed to introduce the newcomer to the variety and complexity of the problems of oral history, this selective, annotated bibliography includes: (1) basic articles or texts in related fields important in oral history field work, (2) works with extensive bibliographies, (3) works not covered in earlier and available bibliographies (except…

The two purposes of this study were to analyze the linguistic studies of the speech of black Americans which began in 1865 and ended in 1972 and to determine, on the basis of the studies analyzed, whether or not a black dialect exists. First, 73 studies were read and analyzed; second, these studies were categorized according to the investigators'…

Basic to the process of effective communication are the elements of practice and understanding. This paper proposes using a 9- to 10-lesson unit employing the one-point speech as a vehicle for practice prior to a longer, more involved activity. The advantages to this approach are that the student is initiated without being overwhelmed, the skills…

Afro-American poets, dramatists, and prose writers have been affected by the tension between traditional African oral modes and various European-American written genres, as well as by the merger of "white taste and black need," which can be seen by examining the styles and themes of black literature in America from Lucy Terry's 1746 poem "Bar's…

Communicative anxiety, its corresponding avoidance behavior, and the relationship of the two to communication performance in the small group are investigated. Various definitions of anxiety are discussed. Objectives of the study are to increase knowledge in the area of anxiety reduction, avoidance behavior and communication performance by (1)…

Criteria for measuring teacher effectiveness include the prognostic type, teacher observation, student achievement, and communication variables. A paradigm based on communication variables consists of: (a) Discriminate observable communication climate variables (devise method of observing and measuring communication variables); and (b) Determine…