Examines the retention of a lecture by college students. Emphasis is on note taking procedures, information density and speech rate. Retention was measured 48 hours after lecture and was found to be superior when note taking was separated from listening and speech was at normal rate. (Author/DEP)

Research performed by HumRRO Division No. 3, Presidio of Monterey, California 93940, under Dept. of the Army contract with George Washington University.

This study was designed to examine the relationship between values and listening comprehension. Subjects were 146 freshman and sophomore basic speech students at Eastern Michigan University during the 1971 summer session. The listening sub-test of the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) and the Allport, Vernon, and Lindzey Study of…

Suggestions for developing an effective listening program for primary, intermediate, and junior high school levels are presented here along with some background on the growth of listening programs. The identifiable listening skills are reported as well as the ways classroom teachers can carry on listening programs. It is noted that practical ways…

This paper discusses available materials for teaching listening skills at various instructional levels. (1) Recordings--"Let's Listen," a recording of sounds, emphasizes stimulation, with one band allowing students to hear their own voices as well as other human voices. "Sounds and Images" permits students to listen to various recorded sound…

Designed to aid in developing auditory perception, this manual provides a program of remediation for children at the fourth through sixth-grade level. The book is divided into two sections. The first consists of seventy-five essays, each written at three levels of difficulty. The level most appropriate for the student is determined and is used for…

The purpose of this study was to compare the results obtained from four methods for estimating reading potential when they were applied to twenty-nine high ability eighth grade students. The estimates were obtained by using the Bond and Tinker formula, the Harris Reading Expectancy Age formula listening capacity level, and the Analysis of Learning…

This study sought to a) determine whether skill in extracting information could be improved by special training, and b) assess the effects of such training in classroom teacher-learner interaction. Fifty-four Stanford teacher trainees representing the subject-matter areas of social studies, English, mathematics, and science participated in the…

Training basic auditory recognition and retention skills through the use of a computer-electronic organ interface is described. Session structure and computerized aural test modules are explained and results are detailed. (RAO)

The performance of 27 inadequate and 30 adequate readers in the third grade was compared on a dichotic listening task involving conflicting pairs of nonsense syllables. (Author/CL)

A study conducted in a Canadian secondary school found that students with a larger inventory of native English vocabulary were better able to recognize cognates in French language instruction. (MLA)

Forty-two right-handed preschool children listened to dichotic presentations of digit names and were told to report only the digit arriving at the designated ear. A significant right-ear superiority was found, demonstrating a left lateralization of verbal processing in children as young as three years of age. (Author/JMB)

In an investigation of comprehension strategies in young children, children in R. Brown's Stages I, II, and III responded to commands varying in length, grammaticality, and meaning. (SB)

Urges teachers to take time for intensive listening training for their students. Suggests eight activities to help produce more attentive students. (MS)

The comprehension of three systems of synthesized speech for computer screen output by 20 naive staff members at a Blind Rehabilitation Center was evaluated. The study found poor overall recognition performance on all the systems regardless of whether default or subject set parameters were used. (DB)