Author provided examples to help teachers begin work in evaluative listening in their classes and considered the influence of advertising on children. (Author/RK)

Indicated that errors on the competing message task varied inversely with age, increased with changes toward more unfavorable Signal to Distraction levels for the younger children, and were directly influenced by the content of the distraction message for all ages. (Author/RB)

Warns journalists that too much concern for brevity as measured by the Flesch readability formula and the Fang listenability formula may unnecessarily restrict the use of symbols and, in turn, affect how the consumers of the mass media perceive and think. (RB)

Discusses how fairy tales can be used in the French class to develop listening comprehension skills. (PMP)

One hundred eighty limited-English-speaking college students from the Philippines, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan were administered the Michigan Test of Aural Comprehension (MTAC). An analysis of the MTAC indicated that the three unrestricted forms of the test show satisfactory internal consistency reliability comparable to that…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate differences in comprehension among elementary school children who listened to a narrative passage presented at different rates of expansion or compression. Subjects were drawn from three populations with respect to intelligence. The three levels of intelligence were low (IQs ranging from 74 to 98), average…

A test of musical achievement, the central criterion of which was musical sensitivity as evidenced by the ability to make aesthetic judgments, was empirically validated and field-tested upon elementary school children in the Manhattanville Music Curriculum Program as well as in the California Music Educators Statewide Music Testing Program. The…

Computerized speech could enhance the effectiveness of computer-assisted instruction as an educational tool. Digital audio under computer control allows a very wide range of replies, but it poses special problems in the areas of listener attitudes and speaker intelligibility. This paper discusses the design and implementation of special tests to…

The purpose of this study was to measure possible differences in comprehension, retention, and attitude change resulting from presentation of three versions of an oral persuasive message which varied in organizational structure to subjects differing in organizational ability as determined by the Goyer Organization of Ideas Test and an intelligence…

This experiment sought to determine the effect of various pause-deletion schemes on the comprehension of oral language under time-compression conditions. Three pause-deleted versions of a 1540-word spoken message read at 164 words per minute (wpm) were prepared. The first version deleted all inter-lexical pauses occurring at significant Immediate…

Proceedings of the conference on rate and/or frequency-controlled speech contain 33 conference papers. Reports fall into three basic categories: basic research concerning the perception and listening comprehension of time and/or frequency-controlled speech; technical reports concerning the production of time and/or frequency-controlled speech; and…

Reports on the methods used in utilizing broadcasts of the British Forces Broadcasting Service in teaching English as a foreign language. (IFS/WGA)