Addresses the problem of poor listening skills in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners. A strategy to rectify the problem is suggested, and a set of procedures for a remedial course is outlined. (Author/CB)

Reports on how children talking together in an organized way in the classroom can help them become coherent, competent, and confident communicators. (SRT)

Two experiments investigate children's knowledge about attentional capacity limits. Preschool children aged three and four years are asked to choose whether they will listen to pairs of stories simultaneously or one at a time. Results demonstrate a preference for listening to one at a time. (Author/RWB)

Explores the nature and function of listening to music from the perspective of semiotic phenomenology. Claims that listening to music is a form of media consumption and a habitual practice that inscribes social meanings and organizes pleasure. Describes three stages through which the analysis of listening to music occurs: description, definition,…

Responds to criticisms of the author's study concerning children's interpretations of ambiguous referential communications. (HOD)

Replies to B.P. Ackerman's response to the authors' comments on his study concerning children's interpretations of ambiguous referential communications. (HOD)

Varied exercises are offered for teachers to use in sharpening students' listening skills. (DG)

Tested, in two separate studies, the assumption that listening comprehension is dependent, in part, upon an individual's level of cognitive complexity. Found that high-complex individuals comprehend more listening material than do their cognitively simpler counterparts. Lends support to an information processing conceptualization of listening. (PD)

Discusses the difficulties of testing listening comprehension in a second language and describes test procedures which try to overcome these difficulties used in a French course taught at the University College in Cardiff. The specific tests are note taking and summary writing, oral translation, and transcription. (SED)

Suggests ways to overcome the learner's difficulty in understanding spoken English, e.g., assimilation, elision, change of tempo and of style, and the reduction of stresses. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Listening is relevant in all academic disciplines and in the "curriculum of life." The purpose or reasons for listening depend upon the speaking activity involved--thus listening in a conversation is different from listening to follow directions. The teacher needs to establish clear purposes or objectives for learners in the area of…

A summary of a Human Resources Research Organization report, on the level of reading, listing, and arithmetic skills needed in four military occupational specialities and width of the gap between skills possessed and skills needed, emphasized the need for remedial literacy training and more learning-by-listening opportunities. (AG)

The elements of speaking and listening in order to identify basic teaching skills that are essential to teacher pupil interaction are analyzed. (MJM)

A review of the available research in listening comprehension and some suggestions on how to teach listening skills. (RB)

Discusses seven listening experiences designed to open children's ears to sound. (Author/RK)