Three experiments investigated the effects of age, context, and reflection-impulsivity on elementary school children's monitoring of comprehensibility problems in extended messages. Results suggest that perceptual support and cognitive style are two information-processing factors that have an impact on young children's monitoring of their…

Teachers of French as a second language are warned that the television news magazine, while offering a convenient format and some important information for instruction, may be limiting in its perspectives and assumptions. Careful attention to the program's varied content is as important as attention to its style. (MSE)

A small scale survey of hearing-impaired graduates from Aberdeen schools was carried out in March 1973. It focused on the relation between types of schooling received, degree of hearing loss and levels of communication ability, employment satisfaction, training for work, promotion, and social attitudes. (Author/RK)

Concludes that vowel sounds seem to be the most difficult for poor readers to discriminate. (RB)

A study was conducted to explore the ways effective elementary school principals use their listening skills in conversations with their teachers to better understand them, make decisions, and make sense of the day-to-day operations of their schools. Additionally, teachers' perceptions of their effective principals' listening skills were…

This study described a sequence of steps that led to the increase of reading and listening comprehension. The targeted population consisted of kindergarten and first grade students in a rural community located in the Midwest. The problems of reading comprehension were documented through data collected by standardized test scores. The gain of…

This booklet focuses on direct service work with parents and children, and explores how leaders and staff can use the reflective approaches of the Look, Listen, and Learn model to establish high-quality relationships with families. The booklet addresses the complex decisions that service staff face daily by presenting strategies for use in setting…

The purpose of this study was to investigate what effect providing supplemental background knowledge in the form of a book talk would have on first graders' listening comprehension following a read aloud. Research shows that providing background knowledge creates a foundation and/or builds upon previously set schema on which further information…

This paper reviews and discusses the literature related to improving effective communication in educational settings. It compiles possible solutions to ineffective communications. To promote effective communication, administrators need to solicit opinions and be willing to listen to them. Most administrators tend to give direction instead of…

In this study, utterances of prepubertal children. were examined for the purpose of limiting and isolating linguistic factors which may be important for aural perception of sex. The subjects were 43 third grade children, 21 boys and 22 girls, who ranged in age from eight years, four months, to nine years. Each of the children produced 19 types of…

Presents a summary of language arts research relative to early childhood education. (TO)

Describes the efforts of Sesame Street to reach the "information-deprived" child. (GB)

Describes the Learning Skills Program at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, which offers students assistance in developing reading, writing, study, and listening skills. (TO)

Dyslalia refers to a broad spectrum of language pronunciation difficulties; the subjects of this experiment experienced only minor distortions in articulation. (DD)