Tested variables that affect how students rate speeches delivered by their classmates. Found, for example, that students who rate the speeches before giving their own are more positively lenient than they are when rating those speeches given after they deliver their own speeches. (PD)

Replicates and extends a previous survey (EJ 283 746) on ethics in forensic activities. Concludes that forensic educators and participants share a basic concern for ethics in speech contest events. (PD)

Discusses changes in speech production and perception occurring in Korean speakers learning English during short-term training in the perception and production of the /r/ - /l/ contrast in English. (EKN)

Analyzed pieces of verbal protocol in a group (N=13), demonstrating structures of cognition and language as they pertain to numbers occurring in verbal productions. Analysis suggested that these linguistic anomolies, though atypical, are not anomalous but are clear cases representing processes of cognition and language. (LLL)

This study (1) demonstrates the negative impact of profanity in a public speech and (2) sheds light on the conceptualization of the term "rating error." Implications for classroom teaching are discussed. (PD)

This article describes the use of role playing in adult education for improving the communication skills of native French-speaking adults. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Reviews materials relating to Russian speech which have appeared in the journal "Russkij Jazyk Za Rubezom" since its first issue in 1967. The articles reviewed are divided into three categories: the stylistics of Russian speech, specific conversation expressions, and methodology. (CLK)

Discusses a survey designed to determine how teachers of Speech Communication and Theater feel about certification standards in relation to their preparation, training and needs as classroom teachers. (MH)

Discusses a survey designed to assess the impact of career education on communication programs in higher education within the Central States Speech Association region. (MH)

Suggests two means of humanizing objectives and examines the cognitive and affective responses of students to behavioral objectives for a unit of instruction in a basic speech communication course. (MH)

Presents the results of research designed to examine language acquisition within the four skill areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as it is affected by both non-distorted retardation and repetition of speech. (CLK)

Discusses the results of the administration of the SLOPE test, a measure of oral production, to 66 adult speakers of English as a second language. (Author/RM)

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