This paper explores language-related content in the context of past, present, and future elementary schools, contrasts definitions formulated by educational specialists, and cites recommendations for the training of teachers. (Editor)

Reconstructed is the goal directed dialogue of eight 9-to 11-year-old children with adjustment problems and five re-education team members in a special school to show that both special teachers and parents must not only listen but endeavor to hear what children say during problem solving. (MC)

The development of listening skills in deaf children requires emphasis during the child's entire waking day, selection of an appropriate hearing aid, educational intervention, and sequentially organized teaching-learning experiences. (Author/LS)

Warns journalists that too much concern for brevity as measured by the Flesch readability formula and the Fang listenability formula may unnecessarily restrict the use of symbols and, in turn, affect how the consumers of the mass media perceive and think. (RB)

One hundred eighty limited-English-speaking college students from the Philippines, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan were administered the Michigan Test of Aural Comprehension (MTAC). An analysis of the MTAC indicated that the three unrestricted forms of the test show satisfactory internal consistency reliability comparable to that…

Several experiments were conducted to show that knowledge of the spelling of words is involved in making decisions about how they are pronounced. The experiments used a lexical decision task with only spoken words and nonwords. Subjects in each experiment heard an uninterrupted list of spoken words and nonwords at a rate of about one item every…

TO ASSIST IN STUDYING THE PROBLEM OF ACCOMMODATING LARGE CLASS SECTIONS, THE PENNSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY PLANNING OFFICE CONDUCTED A STUDY TO DETERMINE THE NATURE OF THE EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE GROUP TEACHING IN FORTY-TWO MAJOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. RESPONSES BY THIRTY-SEVEN INSTITUTIONS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT…

"Micro-counseling" is a video method of training counselors in basic skills of counseling within a short period of time. This research studies the effects of micro-counseling training procedures upon three groups of beginning counselors. These three different skills, attending behavior, reflection of feeling, and summarization of…

Described in the handbook are 30 auditory training games for aurally handicapped children (3-12 years old). Information is provided on activity equipment, materials, and directions for nursery, primary and hard of hearing or advanced deaf students. Skills are sequenced from gross discrimination, identification, pitch, rhythm and fluency to voice…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether students who had been diagnosed as reading learners (by scoring above the mean on the advanced California Reading Test) or listening learners (by scoring above the mean on form Am of the Brown Carlsen Listening Comprehension Test) achieve at the same level using programed material presented in a…

The catalog lists 24 commercially available listening skills materials for visually impaired students. Materials were selected for inclusion by a committee of educators for the visually impaired; some materials may require minimal modification (such as transcribing answer sheets into braille). An introduction describes seven functional areas of…