In a study of the relation between listening performance and reading performance, a standardized listening test ("Sequential Test of Educational Progress") and a reading test ("Stanford Achievement Battery of Tests") were administered to 247 sixth-grade pupils in Decatur, Alabama. The problem of the study was divided into three parts: (1)…

The major purpose of this study was to investigate the potential usefulness of compressed speech as a reading improvement technique. It was hypothesized that reading comprehension, reading rate, and listening ability would show improvement when highly speeded auditory presentations of connected meaningful material were employed systematically over…

This experimental study investigates differences between a game approach and a programmed learning approach in teaching three listening comprehension skills (negation, exclusion, joint denial) to a total of 13 4- or 5-year-old Head Start children. It was hypothesized that (1) manipulation and novelty of reward would influence children to choose an…

In order to establish whether voice pitch and evaluative meaning play any significant role in affecting message learning (as demonstrated by listeners' recall) at the morphemic level of communication, 48 freshman students in a basic speech program participated in this study. Through individual headsets, students listened to tapes containing an…

This article presents ways in which listening skills may be taught to young children. (RC)

Describes research that tested the validity of a set of guidelines for a program for the systematic development of listening comprehension skills. (DD)

A review of research on the three types of auditory disorders, concentrating on inefficient learning which results from problems in auditory processing. (DD)

Reports the findings of an analysis of the impact of a major criminal event on the size of the total broadcast audience, on media-switching behavior, and on station-switching behavior. (GW)

To develop listening skills for all types of music, teachers may want to try some of these imaginative teaching techniques. Describes some unconventional ear-training exercises, vocal exercises to encourage students to "paint with their voices", and "rebound" exercises to explore spontaneous relationships between sound and movement. (Editor/RK)

Discusses the techniques, rhetorical principles, and interaction skills appropriate to teaching oral communicative competence. (RL)

Noting that listening skills can and must be learned by the successful principal, this article defines the skills and levels of productive listening, lists strategies frequently used that create barriers to effective listening, and outlines processes of active and directed listening. (MJL)

Concludes that students who have not mastered independent reading, who seldom receive instruction in critical thinking, and who are unprepared to engage in critical reading when required to do so, will benefit from instruction in critical listening as part of their reading instruction. (FL)

Many students exhibit poor listening habits in the classroom, so that elementary and secondary teachers must do much repeating and reteaching of material. It is particularly important for students to listen well to achieve as much as possible in the mathematics curriculum. There are a plethora of sources available from which to select objectives…

Based on a paper by H. Schenk presented at 3. Arbeitstagung der Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Linguistik, Stuttgart, West Germany, 7-9 October, 1971 (Third Workshop of the Society for Applied Linguistics). (DD)

Speaking and listening should be taught as related activities. (DD)