This paper summarizes a south Asian custom of decision-making and a western custom of decision-making. It then describes by example the meeting of these customs, based on traditional philosophies (one supporting an entire family group, the other leaving a person to function individually and independently), when a newcomer (an Indian male graduate…

Providing a listing of an essential core of content to be taught and learned in each grade level, this paper presents content standards in four major areas of communication/language arts: reading, writing, listening/viewing, and speaking. The standards are organized by separate grade levels for grades K-9 (except grades 9-12) so readers can…

Serving as a basis for an educational dialogue that needs to take place in every school district in South Dakota, this technical guide to the South Dakota Communication/Language Arts Standards includes the Goals, Indicators, Benchmarks, and Grade Level Standards for reading, writing, listening and viewing, and speaking. It is organized in grade…

The seven chapters of Listening and Learning 2004 contain indicators that describe different aspects of life in the 26 Knight communities. Chapter 1 provides the context for Knight Foundation program work in these communities by highlighting some of the most important demographic, economic and social characteristics that place each community in…

Speech instruction can be broadened through the use of various types of audiovisual communication. (CH)

Article examined the relative contributions of pause frequency and articulation rate to the listener's extraphonic perception of rate, the invariance of the cue hierarchy across modalities, and the reproducibility of the extraphonic scale with somewhat different procedures and stimulus ensembles. (Author)

Part of a dissertation, Stanford University; research supported in part by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. (DD)

A description of the current status of television and radio exposure among five to nineteen year-old British children. (Author)

Grade-school children's selective listening preferences for natural and altered narratives were investigated. (Author)

Discusses how the learning of reading skills can be combined with the teaching of musical skills. (MM)

Describes a game which enhances spelling skills, improves pronunciation, stretches vocabularies, increases listening abilities, and develops a new interest in words. (Author/MB)