Urges planners of English curriculums to focus upon "literacy, oracy, and mediacy. (Author/RD)

Discusses criteria and problems in judging the following forensic events: after-dinner speaking, informative speaking, persuasive speaking, and rhetorical analysis. (For journal availability, see CS 706 260.) (PD)

Describes the system used by the National Forensic Association to schedule its Individual Events Nationals Tournament. (For journal availability, see CS 706 260). (PD)

A parent diary was used as part of an assessment of a 26-month-old severe-to-profoundly hearing-impaired child's expressive language. The diary data, which is appended, were used to obtain information about the child's expressive vocabulary, mean length of utterance, and verbal, semantic, and pragmatic performances. (Author/SEW)

Discusses the use of standarized target language forms in the foreign language classroom. Describes appropriate documents and some typical classroom activities. (EKN)

Outlines an alternative interpretive approach to listening which is grounded in the hermeneutic phenomenologies of Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur. Explains four features of this alternative: openness, linguisticality, play, and the fusion of horizons. Discusses conceptual and pedagogical implications. (PD)

Eighty college students with learning disabilities were evaluated via intelligence tests and auditory language tests. In the 63 students with auditory language problems, persistent problems were discovered in discrimination, comprehension, memory, retrieval, sequencing, syntax, formulation, and articulation. The major area of language problems was…

Discusses the need for language departments to be adaptable or continue to face dwindling enrollments. Stresses the importance of teaching language as an important communication tool. (EKN)

Explains the nature of audience participation debates known as the LSU Forum, sponsored by the Louisiana State University Department of Speech for the past 18 years. Sketches their history and development from British university debating unions. Discusses how they are organized and factors that contribute to a good Forum debate. (PD)

Discusses the need for selectivity in (1) student recruitment, (2) program offering, and (3) use of limited resources. Concludes that administrators of speech communication departments need to determine their program strengths and recruit selectively those students who can become successful graduates. (PD)

Findings from two studies indicated that (1) conversations with silences were evaluated more negatively, along a number of dimensions, than conversations without silences; and (2) when silences were accompanied by an activity--for example, sculpting--conversations were rated more favorably. (PD)

Presents a sampling of documents from the ERIC datebase on the role of gender in communication. Includes documents in the following categories: instructional strategies, secondary school studies, gender and language choices, intercultural situations, and communication practices. (PD)