Scholars agree that listening is an active rather than a passive process. The listening which makes people achieve higher scores on current listening tests is "second speaker" listening or active participation in the encoding of the message. Most of the instructional suggestions in listening curriculum guides are based on this concept. In terms of…

Twenty audiotapes, containing lies or true statements, were recorded and judged by 100 subject-listeners, aged 15-30. As a group, subjects displayed better-than-chance accuracy in judging veracity, which confirms previous studies. A tentative profile is drawn of an individual adept at detecting lies. (SJL)

Novice second-language learners can understand and benefit from authentic reading and listening language texts that are not typically introduced until students have intermediate or advanced language skills. Early exposure to such texts can help learners develop useful listening strategies for more complex tasks. (Author/CB)

Presents an interdisciplinary approach for helping students develop listening skills through activities which involve anticipating and paying attention to what is heard, as well as responding to oral directions. Provides worksheets, answers, and directions. (RT)

Asserts the importance of empathy as a necessary condition for health service professionals. Describes classroom techniques and assignments that teach and assess empathic-listening skills. Includes students' ratings of 14 learning activities designed to enhance listening skills and empathy. (CFR)

A study examined the listening needs experienced by people who engage regularly in small group communication situations. Subjects were 137 students, including graduate communication students, senior level students in organizational communication classes, undergraduate communication students in an adult re-entry program, and undergraduate students…

Four areas relating to listening and language learning are examined: current directions in second language instruction, listening instruction in second language programs, listening as a means to an end versus listening comprehension as an end in itself, and the influence of listening research on materials development for second language…

Western philosophy has not had much to say about listening or receptive communication until fairly recently, and listening research has tended either to follow the trends of the speech communication field or to be directed by speech science or the pragmatics of the working world. A study examines the process of understanding and interpretation…

This paper reviews studies of the use of cloze techniques to measure listening comprehension. After briefly discussing the origins and characteristics of the cloze procedure, nine specific studies of the aural cloze are discussed. General conclusions are drawn from these studies and directions for future research are offered. (AA)

How teachers can make maximum use of listening for learning. (HB)

How Western Michigan University uses it's Multiple Audio Distribution (MAD) System for instruction. (HB)

The 10 chapters of this book are a compilation of 37 articles, by various authors, that are related to one of the following subjects: The Nature of Listening; Relationships: Listening and Reading; Relationships: Listening and Other Psychometric Factors; The Teaching of Listening; Testing Listening Skills; Critical Listening; Listening and the…

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…

The valuable part that listening plays in children's education is demonstrated by a description of the effectiveness of one teacher's aide. (ED)

Reviews the literature related to listening instruction and discusses the fallacy that hearing and listening are synonymous and the development of a program of instruction for improving listening skills. (JM)