This address focuses on the power of sharing individual stories and empowering individuals to be strong in their lives. Numerous anecdotes are used throughout the speech to address the power of the encounter. The speaker asserts that the telling of individuals' stories, verbally and in writing, leads to encounters of faith and moments of love. The…

An instructor developed audio-stimulus activities for use with students and colleagues after attending conferences and short courses where similar activities were conducted. After listening to a tape-recorded "typical scenario" (different for each audience), participants answer a few questions about the scenario. Small groups of students…

Boundaries in running speech are not all equally obvious acoustically. The research reported here is concerned with identifying the acoustic characteristics that trigger the listener's response to boundary signals. The eventual goal is to establish the relevance of the boundary to the syntactic and semantic structure of the message. (Author/TL)

To analyze listening in relationship to other communication modes, to investigate the relative utility of four models for communication theory building research (national, psychological, organizational culture, and situational), and to examine the relationship between organizational change and the modes of communication, a study examined the…

Scholars and consultants have offered a multitude of definitions of listening. One group defines listening as an ongoing, nonstatic process by which spoken language is converted into meanings in the mind. The other group, the sequentialists, view listening as a linear sequence of events in which one aspect is dependent upon a preceding aspect.…

The techniques for effective listening can be identified by the acronym PAT, which stands for three sets of techniques--physical, attitude, and thinking. Four kinds of physical techniques promote effective listening: appropriate eye contact and normal blinking rate, facial feedback, appropriate body language, and appropriate verbal feedback. Two…

In an integration of listening research with other areas of language arts, this monograph presents a framework for understanding listening skills and outlines classroom activities that are based on scientific data. Stressing the priority and value of listening instruction, the introduction discusses the need for more attention to listening and…

The purposes of this study were to investigate whether a listening improvement program developed for business and industry would be successful in improving the listening skills of college students and whether a listening improvement program designed primarily for speakers of standard English would be successful with speakers of nonstandard…

This manual deals with three areas of communication. The first section reviews problems of communication within an organization or task analysis team that can hinder effectiveness and gives suggestions for improving the quality of intra-organization communication. The second chapter stresses the importance of active listening, makes…

Compares competence of the "native hearer" with that of the foreign learner. Refers to research in auditory comprehension, particularly to the "motor theory of speech perception" and sequential psycholinguistics. Presents exercises on various components and on the complex development of auditory competence. (IFS/WGA)

Paper adapted from the final report of a Columbia University Teachers College Research and Demonstration Center for the Education of the Handicapped project. (JM)

Suggests twelve listening exercises and their applications to writing, speaking, language and literature. (DD)

Determines what effect tonal-durational manipulations have on listeners' response to three specific categorical decision-types: (1) patterns are the same; (2) pattern K is a derivation of P; and (3) pattern K is distinctly different from P. Finds that item-pair 1 was identified as "same" whereas item-pairs 18-20 were identified as "distinctly…

Foreign language learners typically experience considerable anxiety about taking listening tests. This study investigated how four forms of listening support (pre-teaching of content and vocabulary, question preview, and repeated input) affect the anxiety levels of college students in Taiwan taking a multiple-choice achievement test, which counts…

This article suggests a variety of ways in which the teacher and the parent can foster and develop good listening skills in children. (CS)