Discusses language usage among blacks and whites, pointing to some current theories. (RB)

Reports a study investigating surface structure complexity, transformational sentence type, and sentence length as variables in a sentence imitation task with preschool children. (TO)

Describes a program geared to helping children learn to attach the verbal symbol to its particular motoric response so the child will know specifically what to do under a given verbal instruction. (TO)

Describes a teaching method intended to involve language students in classroom activities and conversation, and reduce inhibitions often caused by failure. (RL)

Describes a unit in which students made speeches to inform, persuade, and entertain. (SP)

Discusses the oral reading skills that are directly involved in communicating meaning and feeling. (Author)

Earlier version of this paper was delivered to the 1972 Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Mass. (RS)

Results of this investigation indicate that there are only slight differences in subjects' listening rate preferences between oral reading and impromptu speaking tasks. (Authors)

Oral history as the creation of new historical documentation, not the recording or preserving of documentation-even oral documentation-that already exists is discussed. (45 references) (Author/SJ)

Student administered oral examination compared to the conventional written, objective examination. (IR)

Investigated was ability of adolescent deaf students to comprehend language under three conditions: lipreading with voice, the Rochester method, and total communication. (KW)