Describes theory and experimental findings of Asher and Postovsky in their investigations on how children acquire listening skills. (RL)

A teacher training coordinator stresses the importance of developing gifted children's communication abilities and briefly describes two group dynamics activities ("Circle Partners" and "Think Pink") for building listening, interpretation and discussion skills. (LH)

Phonological fusion occurs when the phonemes of two different speech stimuli are combined into a new percept that is longer and linguistically more complex than either of the two inputs. The present article is an investigation of the conditions necessary and sufficient for fusion to occur. (Editor/RK)

Examines the retention of a lecture by college students. Emphasis is on note taking procedures, information density and speech rate. Retention was measured 48 hours after lecture and was found to be superior when note taking was separated from listening and speech was at normal rate. (Author/DEP)

Research performed by HumRRO Division No. 3, Presidio of Monterey, California 93940, under Dept. of the Army contract with George Washington University.

Paper presented at the International Seminar on Experimental Research in Music Education (University of Reading, Reading, England, July 9-16, 1968).

Three randomly selected third grade classes participated in a study to discover the value of guided television watching on listening skills. The first class was a control group and received no special instruction or treatment, the second class received daily listening lessons, and the third group watched television guided by the use of teacher…

A LISTENING GROUP IS A GROUP OF ADULTS MEETING TOGETHER REGULARLY TO DISCUSS RADIO OR TELEVISION PROGRAMS, USUALLY UNDER LAY LEADERSHIP, SOMETIMES ASSISTED BY SUPPLEMENTAL PRINTED MATERIALS, WITH ARRANGEMENTS FOR TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION (FEEDBACK) BETWEEN THE LISTENERS AND BROADCASTERS. GROUPS APPEAL TO CLIENTELE NOT ORDINARILY ATTRACTED TO ADULT…

THIS PAPER TRACES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC PROGRAM DESIGNED TO ENRICH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GENERAL MUSIC THROUGH A POSITIVE ATTACK ON THE LISTENING HABITS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. THE PROGRAM, DEVELOPED BY MUSIC TEACHERS AND CONSULTANTS, UTILIZED LIVE ORCHESTRA AND STRING QUARTET PERFORMANCES TO INTENSIFY THE LISTENING…

This study was designed to examine the relationship between values and listening comprehension. Subjects were 146 freshman and sophomore basic speech students at Eastern Michigan University during the 1971 summer session. The listening sub-test of the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) and the Allport, Vernon, and Lindzey Study of…

Counseling is an integral part of nursing, especially public health nursing. The normal day to day situations in which a public health nurse finds herself offer great potential for counselling. The technique used primarily by public health nurses is that of basic listening, which is so necessary for ascertaining and understanding situations and…

The comprehension of aurally-presented narrative passages by fourth-grade children as a function of listening rate and performance on 11 predictor variables was investigated. The predictor tests included: PPVT, Otis Intelligence Test, MAT, Listening Comprehension, Digit Span, Coding, Auditory Attention Span, Clerical Speed, Perceptual Speed,…

This book is designed to improve one's listening skills. Listening is behavior governed by the same principles that govern all behavior. The total constellation of factors influencing such complex behaviors that often arise in the speaking-listening situation involve several levels and types of learning. Any attempt to understand auditors must be…

The auditory discrimination ability of pupils who are generally classified as "socioeconomically" or "culturally" disadvantaged is the subject of recent research. The concept of the disadvantaged child that has auditory discrimination difficulties--and associated with them problems in reading and perhaps even speaking--was quickly and widely…