The discussion of techniques for teaching listening skills in the special education classroom offers a rationale and specific activities. It outlines steps in the listening process, the purposes of listening, effective practices in listening instruction, and lessons and procedures incorporating those practices. (MSE)

Examines the impact of one-on-one tutoring on the reading abilities of students with high listening comprehension scores. Concludes that there is no confirmation that listening comprehension is a reliable indicator of capacity level for students whose listening comprehension scores are above their expected grade placements. (RS)

Discusses the reasons why the last decade has brought increasing awareness that listening is a set of skills in its own right and that reading research may not automatically transfer to listening. A study that compared listening and reading recall among beginning and intermediate college German students is described. (23 references) (GLR)

This study examined the ability of 30 adults with mild or moderate mental retardation to monitor their comprehension while performing a direction-following task. The 60 directions included 6 with trouble sources (ambiguous directions, unintelligible words, and compliance problems). Ability to monitor comprehension varied with type of trouble…

Recent insights into speech production are used to shed light on the dynamics of listening and resolution of fluent speech. Specific restoration processes are exemplified to illustrate what effective listening strategies encompass. Processes involved in auditory decoding, lexical decomposition, and semantic interpretation are seen as important in…

Two views of listening are examined. The first, listening as comprehension, emphasizes accessing meaning through listening, and focusses on the message rather than on form. The second, listening as acquisition, emphasizes the role of listening in promoting language acquisition, and emphasizes the role of noticing in facilitating language…

Principals and assistant principals find themselves in a variety of situations in which listening can be their most important activity. In this article, the author shares his experience that highlighted how important listening can be. He also discusses empathic listening, a kind of listening that "involves a paradox of control" in which the…

The effects of rate of presentation on scores for listening tests for three different types of information were examined. The three tests used demanded that subjects recall facts, ideas, and inferences, respectively. Conclusions are listed. (CK)

American education approached a possible turning point when the National Governors Association (NGA) and Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released drafts of proposed new academic standards in English language arts and math for kindergarten through high school. Already the object of much interest--and some controversy--these are…

This study investigated effectiveness of Web-based CALL on listening comprehension. Both students' academic performance and attitudes were examined. T-tests were used to analyze the results of students' academic performance. Descriptive statistics interpreted students' attitudes toward this learning. Students' participation was also recorded.…

This study investigated the beliefs and practices of 28 teachers of the deaf about their practices. The teachers were all working in oral settings either as visiting teachers or teachers in a mainstream school facility supporting groups of students with hearing loss. Teachers who used an Auditory Verbal approach largely adopted a positivist…

Within the context of Taiwan, where growing numbers of universities seek teaching excellence and better English learning outcomes, passing a designated English test has been imposed on thousands of university students as one of their degree requirements. This educational policy has become feasible only after the debut of the indigenous General…

This study investigated the effects of captioning during video-based listening activities. Second- and fourth-year learners of Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian watched three short videos with and without captioning in randomized order. Spanish learners had two additional groups: one watched the videos twice with no captioning, and another…

This study investigates first whether news video in a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) program can foster second language (L2) comprehension and incidental acquisition of adjectives, nouns, and verbs. Second, this study examines the relationship between the participants' vocabulary acquisition and their video comprehension. The…

Fluency has been identified as an important outcome of effective reading instruction, and intervention packages utilizing the method of repeated readings have been shown to improve oral reading fluency. In order to improve the efficiency of these intervention packages, more research is needed on the effectiveness of small group reading…