Describes a course in listening comprehension methodology given to teachers of English as a Foreign Language. The course includes: (1) sub-group and total group discussions of what is meant by listening comprehension, (2) listing of listening comprehension difficulties, and (3) a discussion of students' individually prepared listening…

Outlines a procedure for using television in a second language classroom where the teacher first presents vocabulary and then shows a program clip. A test of comprehension may follow. The students then study the whole text of the program, and work on exercises based on structures similar to the television text. (PJM)

Small groups of first graders (N=11 and 16), identified as having poor listening and attention skills, or as reluctant contributors to oral expression, were stimulated to listen and discuss stories using "listening books" as resource materials. (Author/CL)

Binaural and dichotic tasks of varying complexity were given to seven- and nine-year-old children to investigate the interaction of laterality and selective attention. (JMB)

The processing that integrates the meanings of individual words to form a representation of sentence meaning begins at those points in a sentence where the structural relationships can be identified. (Editor)

Provides a rationale for using television as a means of instruction and presents a model for capitalizing on television as a connection to reading. Includes a sample task sheet. (TJ)

Considers ways to use creative dramatics to develop competence in speaking, listening, and--by extension--writing. (DD)

Through exposure to materials of good literary quality, listening and speaking vocabularies are enriched, leading in turn to the natural development of a meaningful reading vocabulary. (MB)

If the N1 wave (amplitude component between 80-130 msec) does not serve as an index of an initial stimulus set stage of selection, the N1 amplitudes should be differentiated between channels whether the selection is based on pitch, spatial position, intensity, or cues that lead to an efficient rejection of unwanted information. This study…

Discusses a number of English publications on training in listening and reading comprehension; methodology is also discussed. Several requirements are mentioned for editing of such publications, since the mere compiling of texts which appear suitable is ineffective. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This study examined visual analog scaling judgments of disfluency by normal listeners in response to oral reading by 20 adults with spasmodic dysphonia (SD) and nondysphonic controls. Findings suggest that although dysfluency is not a defining feature of SD, it does contribute significantly to the overall clinical impression of severity of the…

This study examined the effects of the cochlear hearing loss of 12 adults on two measures of sequential processing that rely on spectro-temporal information: a gap-detection discrimination task and a melody recognition task. It was concluded that cochlear hearing loss deleteriously affects the processes underlying perceptual organization of…

Noncomprehension signaling by 16 school-age children with mild mental retardation was compared with performance of 16 typically developing children matched for nonverbal mental age. Message type and speaker were manipulated in a direction-following task. Message type, not speaker, influenced noncomprehension signaling, with no intergroup…

Studied aspects of listening comprehension skills in 107 second, fourth, and sixth graders in Finland using the Sentence Verification technique. Findings, comparable with previous research, show age-related improvement in listening comprehension for narrative, but not expository, passages. Cluster analysis produced four comprehension strategies.…

Reports an experiment contrasting word-onset gating with results when words were gated from their word endings. The study demonstrated a significant recognition advantage for words gated from their onsets. The overall results support the position that the perceptual advantage of word-initial information can be understood within a general…