This book offers a number of exercises to develop students' listening skills. The exercises consist of number or letter grid worksheets which are completed by following a sequence of specific directions requiring careful listening and auditory-visual coordination. A graphic design or message emerges when the worksheets are completed. Preliminary…

Eight college listening texts were selected and evaluated by the following criteria: organization, supporting material, and readability. Text organization was assessed by preface material, table of contents, index, and references. Text supporting material was evaluated by the use of hard data, soft data, visual aids, and bibliographies. Text…

This paper offers three experiental assessment procedures for speaking/listening competencies. First, five important elements in assessing speaking and listening are presented: defiinition; the establishment of a specific purpose for the assessment; determining what is being measured; identifying the type of communication being assessed; and a…

Describes the development and use of a listening guide to teach middle school students how to take notes. (RB)

Students can learn to listen by relating music to everyday experiences. Through their own sense of imagery and through language development, they can focus on basic concepts of music. (Editor)

A study compared the relative values of listen-respond and listen-respond-compare language laboratory methods. College-level language students were examined and it was determined that the listen-respond method caused greater comprehension gain. Student recording was found ineffective for first-year students, and may be a definite hindrance. (CHK)

Describes an International Reading Association award-winning dissertation comparing the processes of comprehending written language with the processes of spoken language.

The article describes how to use Voice of America (VOA) radio programs to teach English to students studying in EFL contexts. A major reason why the author believes VOA programs are a good source for English learning is because they allow the teacher to teach English through content. At the same time, VOA programs provide authentic…

A study investigated whether females use more supportive behaviors than males and whether males demonstrate more delayed responses than females in observable listening behavior. It was hypothesized that females would use higher levels of gaze and a greater frequency of head nods and supportive back-channels (SBCs) than males, and that males would…

A followup study investigated radio listenership as ritualistic behavior, based on an initial study using the same set of questions. The hypothesis tested was that gratifications statements related to radio usage would produce similar and stable patterns, reflecting highly ritualistic orientations toward the medium. Subjects, 557 adults in a large…

Noting the differences in processing information by reading and by listening, two studies examined subjects' ability to detect errors in written and oral prose. In both experiments, college students were presented with four expository passages drawn from different written sources. All passages were approximately 300 words and 5 paragraphs long,…

This report describes a set of strategies counselors can use to provide a "psychoanalytically governed hearing" of client communication. It discusses listening and organizing and describes strategies of analytic listening, including listening for the unusual and listening for theoretically relevant material. It is suggested that counselors…

The emergence of a subfield of linguistics, linguistic pragmatics, whose goal is to discover the principles by which a hearer or reader understands a text or can construct a model based on the text, given the sentence-level competence to parse the text's sentences and assign logical forms to them, is discussed in the context of a court case in…

A study investigated the effect of pausing, a component of speech speed, on the listening comprehension of second language learners. Groups of subjects at two ability levels listened to taped versions of two brief lectures recorded with four different combinations of speed and pausing conditions. Comprehension was measured by means of cloze tests…