This paper summarizes two studies which examine children's free recall of letter sequences in an auditory presentation. In both studies, sequences of six or eight letters were presented to 80 third-grade and 80 eighth-grade pupils, at the rate of one item every other second or four items per second. In the first study, where recall was either…

The listener-oriented presupposition is defined as a covert proposition related in some way to the listener and associated with a given utterance which the speaker must believe to be true if that utterance is to be judged functional by the listener. It is proposed that listener-oriented presuppositions fall into the following three classes: class…

This report, one of two investigations into the use of public television and radio requested by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and prepared by their Office of Communication Research, compares the demographic characteristics of the public-television viewer and the public-radio listener. Data gathered in the 1976 Roper Reports, which…

Aural comprehension is analyzed and seen as active, not passive. A catalog of interference factors leads to a catalog of learning objectives. These have primacy over questions of method. Hence media must be examined with respect to attainment of learning objectives. Lab work is especially useful here. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

In the university French program discussed here, students paraphrase literary passages. The analysis of their errors is used to measure their language competence and to indicate the level of language instruction needed. (Text is in French.) (MS)

Identifies listening as the primary business communication activity and suggests increased emphasis in the training and development of listening skills among business students. (MH)

The relationship between listening comprehension and reading comprehension was investigated with 40 fifth graders (20 poor and 20 skilled readers). (Author/SBH)

The article explores six characteristics of children who have perceptual processing dysfunctions. (PHR)

Business educators must improve the teaching of machine transcription so that students acquire employable transcribing skills, states the author, who describes five levels of learning machine transcription and gives examples of the listening, writing, and typing skills needed for correct transcription. (MF)

Two studies measured the effects of parent-administered listening training on the performance of 30 preschool misarticulating children. (Author/CL)

Briefly explores logical analysis and empirical research related to the nature of reading and listening comprehension. Formulates an instructional framework to account for comprehension levels and competencies, giving attention to questioning strategies of value to the practitioner in the classroom. (Author/RK)

A sociolinguistic study of the success of communication styles and utterance structures used by 40 retarded children when teaching a simple board game to a listener of similar or dissimilar age and ability to themselves was conducted to see whether retarded children modify their communications as a function of listener characteristics. (BB)