Article describes a new technique in reporting the results of discussion groups to the plenary session of a small conference. Instead of one person from each group writing a report, each group restaged its discussion for 15 minutes before the whole conference, concentrating on major points and conclusions. (PD)

Communication aesthetics" indicates clearly that our concerns transcend the folly of a narrow, conventional concept of performance; simultaneously, the label is an intensely mixed matrix whose pull is toward new views of the symbolic process-views that stress the complexity and the urgency of aesthetic aspects of language. (Author)

The need for teachers to listen to their students is discussed. (DB)

Results of an experiment in critical listening by Negro elementary school students are reported. (DB)

Knowledge of his subject means little to a teacher who cannot communicate will. (IR)

When 30 adult students aged 20 to 60 were tested for recall of tape recorded information, a significantly negative correlation emerged between age and test scores. It was concluded that older students retain less from oral presentations than younger students. One table. Twelve references. (LY)

Reviews and evaluates four instructional aids to the teaching of listening. (EB)

Adequate listening ability on the part of the teacher is one technique for improving student interest and participation. Five guidelines are presented for use in developing good listening habits. (CH)

The research investigated the ability of four blind children (11-13 years old) to comprehend synthetic speech as a result of practice in listening to it. Results suggested that, as exposure to synthetic speech increases, so does comprehension of synthetic speech. (Author/SW)

No significant differences were found in comprehension among the three rates, suggesting that learning disabled students can learn as much in one-third less time (the compressed rate) than required to listen to content at the normal rate of speech. (DB)

A public radio audience was surveyed to test the hypothesis that a relationship exists between innovativeness and public radio listening. Rather than supporting the hypothesis, findings indicate that the entertainment and information elements of public radio are the primary attractions for the public radio audience. (MER)

A paired-comparison paradigm was utilized to determine the preferences of 20 children (mean age 7.8 years) for listening rate for prose speech. (Author/PHR)

The contribution that attentional factors, listener biases, and other nonsensory variables make to stimulus dominance in a dichotic listening task was assessed by comparison of scores obtained in a conventional two-ear monitoring task and a yes/no target-monitoring task. Results suggested that nonsensory factors had little influence in determining…

Four experiments examined the prominence of place and action representation in the story representations of second-, fifth-, and sixth-grade children and college students. Results suggested that place inconsistency is more important than action inconsistency in children's judgments of story adequacy except when the action involves the story theme.…

Two experiments investigated the perception of coarticulatory cues by 10 college age adults in the speech of 9 children with profound hearing loss and 9 children with normal hearing. Overall, listeners were able to identify vowels in productions by both groups though the patterning of vowel identification differed for the two speaker groups in…