Advocates the re-institution of radio listening groups as a means for citizens to gather for a rational discussion of social issues, and reviews two past successes in this area. (AN)

Based on part of a dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. Revised version of a paper given at the 80th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Houston, Texas, November 1970. (VM)

Sample questions from elementary and secondary student check lists, developed so that a student can establish a meaningful set of standards for himself. (Author/SP)

How to use listening to responses as a diagnostic tool to discover children's reading and comprehension problems. (RB)

Paper read at the Congress for the Oral Education of the Deaf, Northampton, England, in June 1967. (DS)

In this replication study both northern and southern teachers tended to classify a child culturally disadvantaged" even after very short exposure to his speech, if his speech exhibited irregularities in grammar, silent pausing, and pronunciation. (NH)

The national campaign for literacy in Tunisia provides television broadcasts completed by radio programs. Adults listening to the broadcasts belong to organized centers, with qualified instructors, to semi-organized centers in the hands of national organizations, or to family centers providing instructional materials. (EB)

This article suggests applying the methods of linguistic investigation which dialectologists use in field work to the systematically programmed training of foreign language teachers in hearing and correcting the phonemic deviations in their students' pronunciation of the target language. (Author/FB)