Reanalyzes data which suggests there may be gender differences in the relationship between academic performance and interaction with peers among college students. Shows that there are no such gender differences. Reports also a study assessing gender differences in relationships between academic performance and loneliness, communication skills, and…

This review of communication research on television viewing by intellectually gifted children examines the number of hours such children spend watching television, types of programing they watch, their capacity to process and comprehend program content, appropriate child role models in television programing, and mediation of television viewing by…

Finds a significant relationship between parental modeling and elementary communication apprehension but no significant relationship between elementary communication apprehension and parents' communication apprehension or spousal communication apprehension. (RS)

Compares the language of business writing students communicating face to face and on a real-time computer network. Finds that during network meetings, participation was more equal, responses more substantive and text specific, and students more willing to offer direction than during face-to-face meetings. Notes more positive evaluations by…

Finds that (1) teacher affinity-seeking strategies are positively and significantly associated with students' perceptions of teachers' competence and character, indicating that such strategies may assist in developing teacher credibility; (2) perceptions of teacher credibility and use of affinity-seeking strategies are positively and significantly…

Discusses a study of prelinguistic "referential" communication routines and their effects on infants' mastery of protoreferential communication. Reports that observations were made of interactions between infants and mothers. Concludes that infants' communicative skill development depends partly on how adults organize interactions to…

Investigates whether individual levels of organizational commitment are related positively to perceptions of organizational climate and of communication climate. Finds that employees' perceptions of organizational climate and of communication climate were correlated positively with the level of employees' organizational commitment. (PRA)

Examines communication apprehension (CA) as a potential barrier to student academic success. Finds that high CA students are significantly more likely to drop out compared to low CA students. Finds no significant difference in high CA and low CA grade point averages. (SR)

Discusses the contrast between traditional approaches to language arts instruction for special needs children and process-centered, communication-based approaches. Provides examples of research on process-centered, communication-based instruction for special needs children. Addresses implications suggested by this research. (RS)

Explores the assumptions about science and technology held by the engineers who attempted to delay the launch of the Challenger Space Shuttle. Reveals three dominant conceptions of science and technology which guided the engineers' persuasive efforts and which appeared to account for why the engineers did not succeed in their attempt to influence…

Studies student interpreters in the Master's Translation Program at Yarmouk University in Jordan. Analyzes the difficulties of these students, particularly regarding lexical competence, when interpreting from Arabic to English, emphasizing the need to teach lexicon all through interpreting programs. (HB)

Examines quantitative magazine research studies published in various journals during the period 1983-1993. Questions the heavy reliance on content analysis techniques to study the role of magazines in American society. Calls for a redirection in magazine research, combining media content studies with media effects studies. (SR)

Reviews and critiques literature in the subfield of magazine editing research, chiefly biographical studies of individual editors and various types of studies of editorial practices, including surveys, magazine content analyses, and close qualitative examinations of editors' relationships with others. (SR)

Examines 73 participants on the relationship between verbal recall and listening, using measures of listening behavior as a criterion. Considers three possible models: (1) isomorphic, (2) confounding, and (3) recall ability as antecedent to listening. Finds that a model stipulating verbal recall ability as antecedent to listening provides the best…

Presents a classroom discussion episode broken into narrative segments with the teacher's reflective commentary on each. Uses this narrative to help understand the nature of student response to literature and the demands that response-centered teaching makes on teachers. (SR)