Sixty-six children aged 9-10 years were tested in two groups with two parallel cloze tests of reading comprehension. The same tests were then given as cloze tests of listening comprehension. (Editor)

Author explained the steps in preparing a pop-hit listening guide, from the selection of recordings through the development of question-answer formats to the use of graphic aids. He presented a brief but solid package on how to use music that captured student interest while stimulating the intellect. (Editor/RK)

A study explored the applicability of emotion theory as a paradigm for explaining the effect of speaker delivery upon credibility and listener comprehension. Subjects were 60 undergraduate students from a large southeastern university. One group of subjects heard a speaker deliver an informative speech with varied delivery. A second group of…

This examination of the nature of leadership identifies communication as one of the most important elements of leadership, and discusses the 16 basic and 32 mixed types of personalities with whom leaders interact. The communication styles of individuals with each of these temperament styles are also discussed. The importance of effective listening…

The pamphlet is intended to show that communication works better than punishment in correcting children. Examples are cited of non-punishment reactions and messages in which parents tell their children how they feel about their actions, what parents don't like about it, and why. The importance of active listening is stressed and examples of its…

The Natural Approach to teaching second language communication skills is described. The Natural Approach is based on the proposition that acquirers in natural situations go through three stages: comprehension, early speech, and speech emergence. Provision of comprehensible input allows beginning learners to teach themselves how to speak. Thus,…

The study involving 82 hearing and 78 hearing impaired undergraduates was undertaken to test the hypothesis that hearing impaired Ss would cluster prepositions into different sentence groups when operating from scrambled story presentations than would hearing Ss. It was also hypothesized that hearing impaired Ss would show different cluster…

Intended for anyone interested in providing children with a quality alternative to current children's broadcast programing, this report presents the results of a survey of radio listening habits and attitudes. The report's introduction describes development of a pilot radio program for children by Children's Audio Service (CAS) unit of the…

Social class differences in ability to communicate conditional information were investigated using 132 white, fifth-grade children of both lower and middle socioeconomic status. Results indicate communication, but not comprehension, problems exist for lower SES students. Implications of these findings are discussed. (Author/SDH)

Reviews some of the literature on listening and stresses the need for developing the necessary listening skills in the elementary grades. (RB)

If popular music is merely a reflection of bad taste, as is often suggested, why do so many people enjoy it? (Author)

Discussed the game-like atmosphere teachers might want to create for fruitful listening experiences as well as describing illustrative games that can be used for such purposes. (Author/RK)

Preschool children were tested for their understanding of the use of definite and indefinite articles in 2 kinds of story-telling tasks. (ST)

This study focuses on meaning differentiation among different causative expressions. Semantic differences between lexical and periphrastic expressions are reviewed. A picture comprehension task was administered to 32 adults and 99 children between the ages of 32 and 70 months. The children were asked to select the picture that matched a sentence…