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Meiske, Sally – 1984
A study investigating the perceptions of students of English as a second language (ESL) regarding formal and informal speech in English also looked at their implications for teaching ESL. It was proposed that because the manner of speech a teacher uses may influence the students' ability to acquire the material presented, it may be helpful to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, English (Second Language), Interpersonal Communication
Moran, Michael G., Ed.; Journet, Debra, Ed. – 1985
The essays in this volume enunciate the pressing need for a theoretical framework for the study of technical communication. The first part of the volume provides an overview of extensive ways to study technical communication. Subsequent chapters discuss humanistic approaches to technical communication, the history of technical communication,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Communication Research
Download full textHill, Clifford A. – 1977
During the past two decades the educational community has focused much attention on the language of urban minority children. Analytic positions set forth tend to assume varying degrees of either language deficit or language differences. The language deficit position is examined in this work from a sociolinguistic or psycholinguistic point of view.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Language Ability, Language Patterns, Language Skills
Garnica, Olga Kaunoff – 1977
This study investigated the linguistic characteristics of speech addressed to the child and the features of the verbal environment critical for learning language. The study focused on the prosodic and paralinguistic features of adult speech to the young child. Adult speech directed to children was compared to other kinds of systematic speech…
Descriptors: Child Language, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Rogers, Sinclair, Ed. – 1976
The five essays in this collection examine the ways in which language functions in the lives of children, particularly in contexts outside the classroom. The first essay attempts to relate the actual language of children and adolescents to the rather different language characteristic of teachers and schools. The second essay examines the language…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Krahnke, Karl J. – 1981
A curriculum rationale and model which meet the constraints of what is known of communicatively-based language teaching/learning are presented. The curricula prepares non-English speaking students for higher educational experiences in the U.S. Current program rationales, communicative and interactive teaching, and issues in curriculum design are…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Esau, Helmut; Poth, Annette – 1981
Details of conversational behavior can often not be interpreted until the social interaction, including the rights and obligations of the participants, their intent, the topic, etc., has been defined. This paper presents a model of conversation in which the conversational image a person presents in a given conversational situation is a function of…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Language Styles
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: (1) identifying problem formation behaviors within the process of organizational change; (2) using the communication audit to determine decision style, satisfaction, and communication…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Banking, Communication Research, Communications
Shuy, Roger W.; And Others – 1976
The discussion following Roger Shuy's presentation on "The Mismatch of Child Language and School Language" focuses on the value of studying language functions, the problems associated with identifying those language functions and their stages of development, and whether knowledge of such language functions will increase reading teacher…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Conference Reports, Language Acquisition
Barbatsis, Gretchen S.; And Others – 1979
Television's messages about sex role behavior were analyzed by collecting and coding spot samples of the ten top ranked programs in prime viewing time and proportionate numbers of daytime soap operas and Saturday morning children's programs. The content analysis was based on a relational coding system developed to assess interpersonal…
Descriptors: Characterization, Females, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Relationship
LAUBACH, ROBERT S. – 1963
TWO HYPOTHESES WERE STUDIED--THAT ADULTS CONSIDERED FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE MAY RECEIVE COMMUNICATION BY SPECIALLY WRITTEN MATERIALS, AND THAT THESE MATERIALS MAY BE PREPARED IN VARIOUS WAYS WHICH WILL DIFFERENTIATE IN COMMUNICATION CONVEYED. FOUR NEWSPAPER ARTICLES WERE REWRITTEN IN THREE DIFFERENT WAYS. THESE AND THE ORIGINAL FORM WERE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Doctoral Dissertations, English (Second Language)
Liska, Jo; And Others – 1980
Rating scales were developed and applied to evaluate deferential/nondeferential language users. Participants were 1,262 college students in small discussion groups containing two experimenter's confederates who used either deferential or nondeferential language. The characteristics of deferential language users were questioning/tentative behavior,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Communication Research, Communication Skills
Chachere, Ernest G.; King, Viola D. – 1976
Even in culturally homogeneous settings, language has an important role in the social interaction of adolescents. This study investigated the importance of values concerning dialect and language variation in a group of 62 ninth-grade students. Subjects, 23 black, 21 white, and 18 native Spanish-speaking individuals, were asked to listen to a tape…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 9, Language Attitudes, Language Research
Applebee, Arthur N. – 1978
The interaction of children and stories is examined in this book, with particular attention to the way in which children's language usage indicates the development of their concept of story. The first two chapters of the book discuss the topic from a broad perspective, seeking a theoretical framework for organizing children's language usage.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Style
Cook, William W. – 1976
Although the black poet Melvin B. Tolson is recognized and respected by other poets and critics, he is unknown both to students and to the general reading public. This paper points out that the key to understanding Tolson's poetry, and much of the poetry coming out of black America, is his use of language. The paper examines one of Tolson's major…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Literature, Creative Writing, Higher Education
