This survey of 130 schools of the Kentucky High School Speech League was designed to develop a profile of the Kentucky forensics coach. The survey consisted of nine basic questions, including education, Kentucky residency, experience, salary, class load, extra responsibilities, extent of the forensic and dramatic programs, and school and…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 2 and 3. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has two main sections, level two and level three, each subdivided into listening skills, speaking skills, and writing skills. The material in each section is set out in three columns: skills, teaching procedures, and materials. The guide…

This book is comprised of essays, reports, and recommendations which were prepared by some 40 scholars who participated in The National Development Project on Rhetoric. The project, which was sponsored by the Speech Communication Association, had as its primary objective the development and amplification of a theory of rhetoric to meet current and…

The primary purposes of this research were to discover any differences between deaf and normal speech compressed 15 or 30 percent related to level of comprehension test, sex of speaker, and form of test, and to learn whether there was a relationship between percent of compression and degree of comprehension. The subjects--219 undergraduates at…

Eight graduate students were used as experimenters in this study to assess the effects of experimentally induced experimenter outcome bias with respect to selected suprasegmental phenomena (pitch, stress, and terminal intonation) emitted by the experimenters during the instruction reading phase of a behavioral experiment. Experimenters were led to…

This study explored the effects of visual (vertical and horizontal) and oral presentation modes upon simple mathematical computations (addition, subtraction, and multiplication). Seventy-two undergraduate education majors were employed as subjects. The placement of the process sign (left, middle, right) and whether a one or two digit number…

THIS INSTRUCTIONAL MANUAL WAS PREPARED FOR COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS WHO WISH TO ESTABLISH AUTOINSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS IN LANGUAGES NOT OFFERED IN THE REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULES OF THEIR INSTITUTIONS. SUCH PROGRAMS WOULD EMPHASIZE INDEPENDENT STUDY WITH COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE TEXTS AND TAPE RECORDINGS, AND PRONUNCIATION DRILLS SUPERVISED BY NATIVE…

This practical booklet, intended for those who are transcribing oral interviews into manuscript form, provides transcribing and editing guidelines that are particularly pertinent to oral history interviews. The major factor involved in a transcription is its editing. Editing is defined as making the material suitable for use by researchers and the…

In this periodical, six respondents from various colleges and universities provide brief commentaries on the subject of genre study in the field of oral interpretation. According to the pamphlet's editor, all of these critics affirm the importance of literary study and genre study to performance, intimate some dissatisfaction with the terminology…

It is shown that a sentence spoken in a foreign language (here, English), though grammatically and lexically correct, may not evoke the proper reaction, because of incorrect intonation. Teaching texts have neglected this field. Some suggestions are given for avoiding misunderstandings caused by faulty intonation. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Examines recent research on defendent's attractiveness, note-taking, language, and eyewitness testimony and investigates the relationship of these variables to the effectiveness and fairness of traditional courtroom proceedings. (MH)

Suggests that professional student-teacher seminars are effective aids in maintaining good working relations between the college faculty responsible for teacher-training programs and the public school personnel involved with student teachers. (MH)