Thirty six EFL freshman students at the College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia were given a dictation, a listening comprehension test and a decoding test. The purpose of the study was to find out whether EFL freshmen students' spelling ability correlates with their listening comprehension and decoding…

Article focused on what music is and how sound materials are put together and manipulated to produce expressive forms of music. (Author/RK)

Article considers two approaches for developing listening comprehension and outlines studies concerning the evaluation of teaching effectiveness. (Author/RK)

Compressed speech is described as maintaining all consonant sounds, reducing all vowel sounds, and eradicating as closely as possible all pauses. (DS)

Music teacher lists some of the amusing names his students have given to different musical compositions and their composers while developing their music listening abilities. (RK)

Study concluded that use of Negro dialect or standard English made no significant difference in ability to answer literal questions; sex and level of readiness did. (Author/MB)

Findings demonstrate that the function of receptive vocabulary is different from and more highly developed than the expressive vocabulary regardless of socio-economic level. (Authors)

A listening program using pre-recorded tapes and workbooks to teach second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh grade students how to improve their listening to oral communication. (Authors/MB)