Reviews recent research on deceptive communication and presents a study to measure the influence of verbal cues, nonverbal cues, and interrogative probes on detectibility of deception. (MS)

Teacher or principal home visitations help schools better understand students and create a strong school-home link. Basic home interview questions are provided. (DCS)

The paper presents a review of the constituent skills and environmental factors which influence the initial onset and continued acquisition of requests for information in normally developing children to provide the foundation for a protocol for assessing and treating children impaired in requesting information. Specific assessment and treatment…

Past categorizations of photographs are critiqued, and a new category system is offered that asks viewers to consider photographs as if they were analogous to various types of language statements: descriptive, explanatory, interpretive, ethically evaluative, aesthetically evaluative, and theoretical. (Author/RM)

Presents arguments against the practice of requiring long answers from students in the second-language class. The argument falls under two headings: (1) such long sentences are unnatural in the context in which they are being asked for and (2) they are usually inefficient. (SED)

Compares verbal output of 12 adolescents with autism or mental retardation with adults using two different sets of verbal behaviors. Results indicates that when adults used a facilitative rather than a directive (or question-based) style, Ss indicated a significantly higher proportion of main topics and produced significantly higher proportions of…

Describes how the Junior Great Books Program of the Great Books Foundation gives children an interpretive method for a lifetime of reading. The method involves selecting readings that will sustain discussion, the discussion method of "shared inquiry," and a course on interpretive reading and discussion. (RH)

Students can learn from writing, regardless of subject area, by keeping a learning log or journal. Several types of questions and topics are suggested for the teacher to guide students in making their entries. (DCS)

Re Quest, a questioning strategy suited to upper primary grades, was found to arouse children's interest, improve their questioning ability, and increase their comprehension scores. (RBW)

Examines teacher-student questioning exchanges and finds that students are rarely given sufficient time to formulate their answers before the teacher repeats, rephrases, or goes on to another student. Discusses some reasons for this behavior and suggests ways of making question asking and answering a more valuable learning experience in the second…

It is proposed that the use of questions as a classroom teaching technique has been largely abandoned in favor of communicative authenticity, and that with careful attention to the linguistic, functional, discursive, and cognitive roles of questions in language, teachers can rediscover their diverse and interesting potential. (MSE)

Presents and discusses several ways reporters can gain the confidence of their news sources and obtain the necessary information for news reports. (TO)

Discusses the educational importance of the kinds of questions asked by teachers and reports a study indicating that teacher training procedures can improve the quality of teachers' questions so that they require cognitive functioning beyond factual recall. (DP)

Newest decision-making tool overcomes the limitations of the three most commonly used date gathering methods. (Author/JN)