On September 26, 1998, the Maryland Communication Association unanimously approved the "Standards for General Education Speech Communication Courses in Maryland Higher Education Institutions." On February 10, 1999, the state's intersegmental Chief Academic Officers (CAO) group endorsed the standards for inclusion in their "Guiding…

This Proceedings from the NCA 2001 Summer Conference deals with the conference's Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Strand. According to the Proceedings, a scholarship of teaching is described as having four central themes: being public; open to critique and evaluation; in a form that others can build upon; and that involves question-asking,…

Teachers of communication are aware that communication contains both content and relationship dimensions, or style and substance, which deliver attitudes and ideas to an audience. The key in transmission of meaning is how the sender selects each word or delivery device to trigger the desired response in the receiver. How style influences substance…

This 1996 issue of the "Carolinas Speech Communication Annual" contains the following articles: "Rhetoric in the Second Sophistic, Medieval, and Renaissance Periods: Implications for Pedagogy" (Omar J. Swartz and Chris Bachelder); "Thou Art Damned: Cursing as a Rhetorical Strategy of the Accusers in the Salem Witch…

Accrediting agencies for colleges and universities across the United States emphasize training in oral communication skills as central to an undergraduate education. The problem or challenge is for communication faculty to develop programs in oral communication skills where students learn necessary skills and receive helpful assessment of these…

Previous investigations have sought to determine how listeners might locate word boundaries in the speech signal for the purpose of lexical access. Cutler (1990) proposes the Metrical Segmentation Strategy (MSS), such that only full vowels in stressed syllables and their preceding syllabic onsets are segmented from the speech stream. I report the…

This study attempted to determine the overlap between two word lists, one derived from written sources (The Great Atlantic and Pacific Sight Word List) and one constructed from oral language (Newman-Bailey List). It is suggested that differences between children's spoken words and the words in school texts may be more fancied than factual.…

About "Beyond the Dictionary in Spanish," by A. Bryson Gerrard. (SK)

Classes that are having trouble with creative writing should stop writing and start talking because oral language skills must precede written language skills. (RB)

Vocal style was proposed as a useful variable with which to classify groups of clients in order to study the differential effects of various therapeutic maneuvers. Relationships between voice quality ratings in early psychotherapy interviews and pretherapy Rorschach and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scores were investigated in order…

Authors offer seven content manipulation techniques teachers can use successfully in leading discussions in almost any classroom situation. (GB)