The Northwest Forensic Conference (NFC) was created in response to decreasing budgets and fewer schools participating in forensics. The basis of the NFC is the designated tournament and yearly divisional sweepstakes awards. Special features of designated tournaments include oral critiques and seminars on forensic issues. Initially, it was assumed…

The use of errand assignments as a means of encouraging language use outside the language classroom is described. The errand assignments were developed for the Japanese Teachers Program, in which Japanese teachers of English visited the United States for language practice. Participants were asked to go to such places as florists, furniture stores,…

The eight articles in this collection deal with various aspects of cross examination debate and with the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA). Topics discussed in the articles include: (1) the philosophy and development of the CEDA, (2) the relationship of the CEDA with the National Debate Topic (NDT), (3) an intercultural approach to value…

A college communication professor discusses methods which will help learning disabled (LD) as well as non-LD students. General techniques advocated include presenting information in a variety of ways, allowing opportunities for questions and clarification, using an organized presentation of information, and being flexible in assignments and…

Concludes that teachers should spend more time on improving and developing oral language skills, and reading practitioners and researchers should develop diagnostic tools for assessing oral language in relation to mastery of reading skills. (RB)

Discusses three motives for and approaches to question-asking, and concludes that the approaches augment and complement each other by accentuating different aspects of the speech communication process. (MH)

Twenty preschool children and their mothers were observed interacting verbally in an unstructured situation. Close mutual adaptation of both partners was demonstrated. Correlational patterns allowed the abstraction of primitive and advanced clusters of language-teaching/learning behaviors. (JMB)

Discusses the audiovisual method today, as seen in the French C.R.E.D.I.F. courses. These are oral, situational, communication-oriented courses, utilizing various media. The phases of this procedure are explained. But these courses are found not conducive to creativeness and independence, which need new procedures, e.g., simulation. (Text is in…

The educator should always strive to use only "emancipative" language: not authoritarian, but rather aimed at developing maturity and cooperation on the matter in hand. It should be pertinent, consistent, comprehensible, reversible, and practice-oriented. It is consciously undertaken, normative behavior, oriented toward political and social…

This paper presents a model for turn-taking in conversation that is locally managed, party-administered, interactionally controlled, and sensitive to recipient design. Several general consequences of the model are explicated. (CK)

Concludes that the tendency to produce speech interruptions at the beginning of utterances, or pronouns, and conjunctions appears to be a characteristic of young children's speech. (RB)

Techniques for the use of the following visual aids are described: hand gestures, drawing diagrams on the blackboard, real objects, magnetic boards and pictures and charts. The aids help to maintain student interest and bridge the gap between drill and communication. (AG)

The author suggests some methods to encourage the language student to improvise his oral answers to class questions. One way is to have the student make up fanciful answers, the other is to use key words in sentences relating to a text. (CK)

A number of practical suggestions are made that can be used to develop a program to strengthen oral expression skills with disadvantaged preschool children. (EH)