Presented is the teacher handbook for EDUCOURSE I, a program designed to increase attending behaviors of educable mentally handicapped students by means of an inservice course in behavior modification techniques. Four instructional sequences consider assessment of interfering behaviors, eliciting attending behaviors, using teacher-attention to…

A split class of 10 Year 1 pupils and 20 Year 2 pupils used the Listen Look Learn multi-media program. A Year 1 and a Year 2 class using the regular basal reading program served as control groups. The effectiveness of the Listen Look Learn program was examined by comparing the reading tests scores of the experimental and control groups. To allow…

Prior attitude intensity involvement and salience, along with prior source competence, sociability, composure, extroversion, and character can be used as predictors of recall, of perception of the source's attitude, and of perception of the attitude revealed in the message. The relationship of prior attitudes and credibility to comprehension and…

The results of the administration of the Preschool Language Scale to two succeeding classes of Head Start children (N 174) in a large, heterogeneous school district are reported. The scale is an individually administered instrument divided into receptive and expressive language areas. All children were administered the Preschool Language Scale,…

A revised edition of the 1968 Michigan Speech Association (MSA) curriculum guide (ED 026 392), this volume is intended to provide the elementary school student with instruction in listening and speaking. Units on listening, conversation, nonverbal communication, discussion, informal drama, reading aloud, story telling, giving talks, and speech…

The book represents oral communication as a wide spectrum of speech events ranging from daily perfunctory comments to highly structured, formal speeches. The introductory chapter summarizes various approaches to the study of the communication process. The subsequent chapters present: (1) elements of communication language structure, language…

Categories of effective and ineffective behavior in regard to Goal Three of the Quality Education Program (regarding basic skills) are listed. Both the rationales for areas of effective student behavior and the categories of teacher strategies are also included. (See TM 001 375 for project description.) (MS)

This paper discusses the results of part of an ongoing project studying an aspect of real world language usage, the comprehension of standard jury instructions. Problems in the comprehension of these instructions include the memory load that they impose, the fact that most instructions are read only once, and the fact that instructions are written…

Good and poor readers drawn from seventh-grade classes read one prose passage and listened to a second one. They were tested following each passage, for comprehension and recall of that passage. Under both reading and listening conditions, good readers recalled a greater proportion of the stories, and the likelihood of their recalling a particular…

The purposes of this study were to determine whether recommendations of university professors for individualized instructional strategies are more often judged acceptable by elementary teachers than are those of public school administrators, whether there is a relationship between the extent to which those recommendations are judged to be…

Distinguishes between structure-oriented and situational dialog, suggesting methods and materials. The following are recommended: Jerrem and Skutznik, "Conversation Exercises in Everyday English" (Longman); M. Ockenden, "Situational Dialogues" (Longman); Jupp, Milne and Plowright, "Talk English" (Heineman); and M. Underwood, "Listen to This"…

Two experiments involving listening preferences of autistic and normal Ss were conducted to test the hypothesis that the right cerebral hemisphere is more active than the left in autistic children. (Author/BD)

College students either read or listened to tape-recorded stories, and immediately wrote a 60- to 80-word summary. A comparison of the readers' and the listeners' summaries revealed only minor differences; listeners included slightly more idiosyncratic detail. The processes underlying listening comprehension and skilled reading were similar.…

Describes activities and exercises that develop children's music appreciation and general listening skills, preparing them for composing original lyrics and music. (RL)

The Personal Report of Communication Apprehension and the Receiver Apprehension Test are used to determine the relationship between speech and listening apprehension at each educational level (junior high, senior high, and college); differences among educational levels and between sexes; and the interaction effect of educational level and sex. (JF)