Music in America has an elitist history. While music colleges stress the development of performers, there is no comparable education for the audience which must support them. Music appreciation should emphasize aural memory, so that audiences can understand the basic materials which lead to musical coherence. (CS)

This article argues that present youth are inarticulate, that oral communication is a vital competency, and that programs in aural and oral skills should be implemented. (MJL)

Two experiments are reported in which the presence or absence of silence was found to be a relevant cue for the distinction between affricate and fricative when it occurred in sentence-medial position, but not when it occurred at a sentence boundary. (Author/AMH)

Relates author's experiences as a story teller from early childhood to the present, describing the art of storytelling and citing excerpts from fairy tales and folktales. (EJS)

Presents a case in favor of more emphasis on listening comprehension as a prerequisite for oral communication in a foreign language. Presents samples of cassette material and illustrates their use at different levels of instruction in French and German. (Author/BK)

This study sought to answer whether children can adjust their evaluation of essays according to standards expressed in the instructions. The question of whether the relative difficulty of detecting inconsistencies and falsehoods depends on the type of problem children are trying to find was addressed. (Author/GK)

Describes a language teaching technique which uses analogies like those found on the Miller Analogies Test. To solve an analogy, a student must understand each word, but more importantly the relationships between the words. Different analogies are listed with suggestions for class presentation. (Author/BK)

Concern over basic communication skills in the workplace has led to the development of corporate training programs to teach effective listening, and to improve the style and content of written communications. (SK)

Because teachers' oral directions for group achievement tests assume that children understand numerous basic concepts, the construct validity of subtests assessing abilities other than language is questionable. Implications for teacher administration of primary level tests and suggestions for future test construction are described. (JD)

Describes the preparation and content of two short tape-recorded listening development exercises for students. (SJL)

Describes experiments involving responses of language disordered children to sentences that can carry directive import. Results indicate that language disordered children are qualitatively like normal children with regard to early response behavior. These children do have more difficulty in generating informing responses and utilizing information…

Adolescent subjects, randomly assigned to immediate or delayed recall conditions, were given two prose passages to recall, one after reading, the other after listening. As hypothesized, for a difficult recall task involving connected prose, recall after reading was superior, both for total units recalled and for number of errors. (Author/SJL)

For spot-dictation purposes, song lyrics can be duplicated with blanks for the words or structures that are desirable to emphasize. Lyrics quite often have repetitious structures and vocabulary, and lend themselves to reinforcing new forms or concepts. This procedure can encourage general listening comprehension while highlighting one particular…

Investigated cross-cultural differences in selective attention within the auditory dichotic shadowing technique among Ibo and Yoruba adolescents of Nigeria. (Author/DB)

The author presents a brief discussion of the uses of aesthetic theory in aesthetic education, followed by the explication of one subsidiary aspect (regional qualities) of Monroe Beardsley's theory, and by a demonstration of how that aspect can be applied in musical analysis and in teaching for perceptive music listening. (Author/SJL)