A study of the process of listeners' and readers' generation and verification of expectations about spoken and written discourse presented to them examined the possible interactions between surface form and cognitive constraints, to establish baseline measures of the effectiveness of different sentence structures in constraining the production of…

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether the type of material was a significant factor in determining listening comprehension. (Editor)

This study investigates the educational consequences of utilizing listen-response-compare mode in a college level language laboratory. (Author)

Entrenched dogma about the primacy of reading hinders real learning. (JH)

The term "functional communication" refers to the skills and knowledge possessed by an individual, from which that individual's competence or effectiveness may be inferred. Part one of this two-part book identifies and describes conceptual and methodological issues involved in evaluating, or empirically describing, the major components…

A good children's book is an exciting alternate language arts textbook. (JH)

A radio course is useful in FL teaching, offering a basis for exercises in hearing and speaking, and with these, factual information. Examples are adduced, showing how to work with segments of the broadcast. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

An experimental context designed to directly affect discourse processing by inducing subjects to generate inferences involving text content was compared to a context in which subjects simply listened to and recalled the content of a text. Context did effect the amount of inferred and overgeneralized semantic information in subjects' text recalls.…

A series of 10 vignettes which illustrate ways teachers can improve their ability to listen and respond to children in a classroom situation. (CS)

Research supported by U.S. Public Health Research Grant No. MH-07176-01 from the Mental Health Division.

The comprehension approach to second language education emphasizes acquisition of listening comprehension prior to and as a vehicle for acquisition of other language skills. The following articles on this approach are collected here: (1) "Nonlinear Learning and Language Teaching" (Winitz); (2) "Aital cal aprene las lengas…

This study sought to determine the extent of the Navy's problem with recruits who have deficiencies in the verbal English comprehension skills necessary to complete recruit training. English language comprehension skills, particularly verbal comprehension, of a cross-section of new recruits were assessed at three training centers--Orlando, Great…

To understand a text, a reader must engage in three important cognitive activities--recognition, comprehension, and memory. Based on this premise, two experiments were conducted with children to assess individual and developmental differences in speed of word recognition and how these differences related to performance on a variety of memory…