The study explored the differences in the abilities of 20 learning disabled (LD) students (6-8 years old) and 19 normal Ss to perform on listening tasks. In phase I, performance levels were assessed on the Goldman Fristoe Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination and a listening comprehension skill battery (the Durrell Listening-Reading Series,…

THIS STUDY ATTEMPTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT GIVING PUPILS SPECIFIC INSTRUCTION IN THE SKILLS OF PURPOSEFUL LISTENING WOULD IMPROVE THEIR LISTENING ABILITY. NINETY RANDOMLY-SELECTED SEVETH-GRADERS WITHOUT HEARING IMPEDIMENTS AND OF COMPARABLE INTELLIGENCE WERE DIVIDED EQUALLY INTO THREE GROUPS. THE ISOLATED-CONTROL GROUP RECEIVED INSTRUCTION…

UNDER TWO GRANTS FROM THE NEW EDUCATIONAL MEDIA BRANCH OF THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH FROM 1963 THROUGH 1967 EXAMINED MAJOR VARIABLES IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION WHEN COLLEGE-AGE STUDENTS ARE EXPOSED TO RATE-CONTROLLED SPEECH. THE TECHNIQUE USED TO ALTER THE RATE OF PRESENTATION OF…

Two studies were conducted to assess the listening ability of 17-year-old students with particular interest in the relationship among listening ability, verbal ability, and racial/ethnic bias in the test items. The first study, a National Assessment of Educational Progress and Speech Communication Association pilot project, indicated that there…

Students in the traditional public speaking course spend the bulk of their time in listening, yet little structure is given to this time to improve its educational value. The assumption underlying the Critical Listening in Public Speaking (CLIPS) Index is that students' listening time can be used to learn more about public speaking by using a…

Forty first-grade children and 40 fourth-grade children participated in a study that sought to determine if age-related increases in memory for prose are due, in part, to deliberate mnemonic strategies and if older children use the higher-order relations in prose more efficiently than do younger children. Each child listened to a tape-recorded…

A description is given of a study to determine whether the attitudes of white middle class student teachers toward children speaking Black dialect could be changed positively and their listening comprehension improved. In a special program conducted by a teacher center a group of student teachers were exposed to brief intensive training in…

This report describes a series of studies of how children learn to operate on incoming information as it is transmitted by language or pictorial representations. Specifically, the studies examined (1) the relationship between what is known and the structure of incoming information and (2) the active operations children use in the process of…

Four intact classrooms containing 68 grade four students were involved in a three-month study of the effects of varied amounts and frequency of exposure to oral reading of children's literature on reading and listening comprehension. Pretest and posttest scores from the Durrell Listening-Reading Series were obtained from all students; attitudes…

This study examines, through the use of a group screening instrument, the oral language comprehension skills of elementary school children. The screening instrument was composed of 60 experimental sentences of varying syntactic complexity. Each sentence contained a specific function word or combination of function words which conveyed a direction…

This annotated bibliography, intended for researchers and teachers, lists materials about reading while listening. The entries are organized into five sections: materials for reading while listening, descriptions and assessments of reading-while-listening methods, empirical studies of reading-while-listening methods, theoretical issues related to…

This paper describes the rationale and strategies of a language teaching approach found to have been extremely effective with both adult and child learners. This approach does not require the language learner to speak until he feels comfortable doing so. Both past and current applications of a delayed oral practice approach to language learning…

This study was designed to explore two questions: do a listener's reactions differ by media; and do variables such as credibility, saliency, and recall function independently in realistic rhetorical situations? The study was designed to investigate listening variables as they function in field communication situations through the use of…

The objectives of this study were to determine the effect post-adjunct questions exert on: learning from oral and written instruction, learning by high and low ability readers, and learning material which requires different levels of intellectual processing. No significant main effects occurred between question and no-question groups. Post-adjunct…

Instructional television is said not to have achieved its potential in primary grades because of five major problems, all related to lack of precise information about the communicative effectiveness of instructional presentations in appropriate time frames. The five problems cited and discussed are lack of adequate knowledge of primary children's…