A study involving 19 children with hearing impairments found that those who developed intelligible speech by 36 months had at 16-23 months a high frequency of vocal utterances, a high proportion of vocal utterances that included intelligible true words, a large consonant inventory, and a high percentage of intonational utterances. (Contains…

Demonstrates the willingness and ability of non-linguists to provide information about "what they know" about everyday speech activities in the form of their interpretive responses to various tape-recorded fragments of talk. Three types of information are identified from these responses, including overtly "available" information about a variety of…

Reports findings of a national survey of 286 collegiate debaters on their perceptions of the benefits and disadvantages of debate participation. Finds that, despite the fragmentation of intercollegiate debate into multiple formats and debate-sponsoring organizations, students generally reported the same benefits and disadvantages of debate…

Administrators must convince and motivate faculty to adopt instructional technology if departments are to remain on the cutting edge. Describes seven actions to promote the use of instructional technology: know your faculty; be aware of faculty concerns; use technology yourself; review potential barriers; explore and obtain resources; communicate…

Describes a teaching method used to tackle a team project in which students may use every form of communication except speech. Students must analyze a problem and collaboratively develop and test possible solutions without talking. This process often changes preconceived ideas about themselves and others, and about scientific knowledge and problem…

Considers why communications departments are not considered central to the mission of universities and makes suggestions about what can be done. Maintains that labeling of communications departments as "communications departments" is ambiguous; communications departments lack intellectual unity and are isolated; and they do not address public…

Explores the complications of identity in the context of a communication education course (at a correctional facility) in performing personal narratives. Addresses issues of naming the criminal, the criminal body as a punishment site, urban mythology, and language. Argues for the construction of personal narratives based on the identity of the…

Notes that each pupil needs to receive guidance and assistance to achieve as optimally as possible in oral communication. Discusses critical listening to the spoken voice, using puppets, using role play activities, committees in the classroom, giving oral reports, oral reading to classmates, giving and following directions, extemporaneous…

A study investigated prosodic variables of syllable stress and intonation contours in speech produced during the simultaneous communication (SC) of ten hearing sign language users. Results indicated longer sentence duration for SC than speech only conditions. Vowel duration and frequency differences between stressed and unstressed syllables were…

Discusses the core concepts embedded in the total quality management approach. Considers the potential value of bringing these core concepts (customer focus, leadership, communication, the use of data, organizational assessment, and continuous improvement) to higher education communication classes. Offers suggestions for applications in…

The Learning Cycle contains three phases. In the exploration phase, students construct shared understanding of critical characteristics of a concept. The teacher introduces a concept in the concept introduction phase. The application phase introduces activities to extend the concept. Includes five concept activities. (SAH)

This article examines the further spread of non-traditional quotatives to the speech of adolescents in Glasgow, Scotland and how these forms might have been transmitted. (Author/VWL)

Describes the status of the Communication Across the Curriculum (CXC) movement from the voices of current CXC directors nationwide. Represents directors' perspectives about their CXC programs in four ways: facts and figures, program descriptions, challenges and points of resistance, and looking to the future. Discusses several implications for CXC…

Examined effects of limitations in processing resources on error detection in self-produced and other-produced speech by means of a dual task paradigm. A production experiment and a perception experiment were carried out. In both cases, the percentage of repaired errors was larger in the single task condition than in the dual task condition,…