Despite the fact that foreign language speaking anxiety is a common phenomenon in the teaching of English as a foreign language in Greece, teachers do not always identify anxious students, and often attribute their unwillingness to participate in speaking tasks to factors such as lack of motivation, or low performance. This article aims to…

The paper illustrates an English for Specific Purposes design for English listening and speaking for students in hospitality fields, accompanied by an educational inquiry into its implementation in a bid to hold accountability to the course takers. The subject was 82 juniors and seniors at a national hospitality college in Southern Taiwan.…

The authors studied the acquisition of nine #sC clusters in 30 Croatian-speaking phonologically disordered children, aged between 3;8-7;0 years, by analysing their renditions of target words elicited in response to visual stimuli presented on a computer screen. Results did not support the idea that a greater jump in sonority from C1 to C2 would…

A speech instructor at Owensboro Community College (Kentucky) found that his switch from the CEDA (Cross Examination Debate Association) speech tournament to the NEDA (National Education Debate Association) speech tournament was beneficial for his students. After the Highland Community College (Kentucky) tournament in January of 1994, the…

In an anecdotal style, this paper offers personal observations on moving from one forensic position to another. It draws on one forensic coach's experiences with five different kinds of programs, discussing in turn the comprehensive Ph.D. university, the graduate teaching assistant administered program, the graduate teaching assistant in a faculty…

This paper focuses on the performance evaluation, a tool extensively treated in the scholarly literature that allows managers and employees to gain shared understanding about workplace behavior. The paper maintains that in the forensic community, the performance evaluation interview can also be an effective forum in which coaches can give…

A study reports a set of labelling criteria which have been developed to label prosodic events in clear, continuous speech, and proposes a scheme whereby this information can be transcribed in a machine readable format. A prosody in a syllabic domain which is synchronized with a phonemic segmentation was annotated. A procedural definition of…

The struggles over "who gets what" in academe have been labeled "turf wars." The quest for resources is directly linked to a department's ability to successfully lay claim to specific academic turf or particular facets of the study of communication, which in turn affects student appeal, and therefore, enrollments. Departments…

This paper offers instruction for college students on the preparation and presentation of toasts for various social gatherings and occasions--as a "real life" application of public speaking. The paper includes a description of a toast proposal, toast outline, toast speech evaluation form, and two sample toast outlines. It suggests a…

This bibliography lists books, articles, and other related sources dealing with the area of the history of communications and rhetoric. The 50 citations cover both the history of western communications as well as studies focusing on American communications and rhetoric. (HB)

This booklet was created to help students present their 4-H projects in the foods area. The guide contains information on making presentations, including the following: types of presentations, how to find and develop an idea, using visual aids, planning the work area for food demonstrations, equipment needed, preparing to give the demonstration,…

At the root of effective listening is appreciating the difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is merely a physiological process, whereas, listening is an interpretive process. Listener misunderstandings can be curbed by keeping a few ideas in mind. First, accurate meaning is not necessarily transmitted in each oral communication…

Assessment in the discipline of speech communication is far from a "passing trend." Between 1988 and 1991, assessment activity on college and university campuses moved from a 55% level of involvement to 81%. Following certain steps allows for an approach that needs to be taken to make the transition to departmental assessment a…

By getting hold of the dominating verbal structures, political correctness has tried (according to Paul Berman) to "get everyone to abandon certain previously unanalyzed phrases that contain the entire structure of oppressive social domination." Unfortunately, "political correctness" has become a pejorative term used to…

A descriptive study analyzed the contention that an artificial dichotomy exists between policy and non-policy debate. A 20-item survey instrument was constructed to address several relevant issues: the role of solvency in CEDA (Cross Examination Debate Association) debate; the nature of CEDA resolutions; and judging in CEDA. A total of 93 surveys…