Using "image" as a central concept, offers an interpretation of the similarities and differences between oral and written comprehension based on studies of both the associative and the generative properties of human memory. The practical consequences of this interpretation on second language teaching are listed. (SED)

Studies 20 teachers (16 women, four men) in pre-, post-, and follow-up testing of Teacher Effectiveness Training (TET) for active listening skills and I-message skills. (Editor/RK)

A number of phenomena in speech perception have been called fusion, but little effort has been made to compare these phenomena in a systematic fashion. This paper examines six of them. (Editor/RK)

This article describes an experiment conducted at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Romance Languages with first-year students. It was concluded that the language laboratory could best be employed to improve aural comprehension and to permit a more direct approach to contemporary French civilization. (Text is in French.) (Author/POP)

This paper asserts that while predicting in listening is a very important listening skill and listening habit, English language learners are often reluctant to use prediction. It recommends that teachers should work to cultivate students' predicting ability so that the students can form a natural and effective listening habit and can predict based…

Through an examination of the discourse markers "ano" and "sono" in Japanese (commonly characterized as demonstrative adjectives but which cannot be used interchangeably in a context), this paper explores how these linguistic devices function in conversation found in Japanese writings. The focus of this analysis is the mental…

Results of this study suggest that some use of the type of the listening used in this study would be appropriate for teaching discriminative listening in the general music curriculum. (Author)

Describes a program geared to helping children learn to attach the verbal symbol to its particular motoric response so the child will know specifically what to do under a given verbal instruction. (TO)

Suggestions for parents of gifted preschool children include talking to the child as an individual, listening perceptively, finding ways to round out knowledge for development of true concepts, and providing a good learning environment with many things to handle, smell, taste, see, and hear. (MC)

Part of a Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota; results were presented in part at the 81st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, April 1971. (DD)

Study was designed to extend previous studies on note taking and listening by investigating the effects of thematic relatedness and of opportunity for consolidation on the learner's recall. (Authors)

The primary purpose of this article is to analyze further the effect of increasing the rate of speech upon comprehension. (Author)