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Is Anybody Listening?
Armstrong, Linda – Learning, 1985
Varied exercises are offered for teachers to use in sharpening students' listening skills. (DG)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Aural Learning, Elementary Education, Language Arts
The Language Lab: Cybernetics and Self-Interest.
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Arthurs, J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Proposes a method to be used in the language laboratory to develop audiolingual skills and at the same time give the student an active role in the use of the laboratory. (AM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Language Instruction, Language Laboratories, Listening Skills
Teaching Speaking Skills from Role-play to Communicative Competence via Information-gap and Opinion-gap Activities. One Teacher's Approach.
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Scullard, Sue – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1986
The task of the teacher of foreign languages is to enable the students to progress gradually from teacher/coursebook controlled utterances to complete linguistic autonomy. Role play and a progression of information-gap activities are discussed in terms of developing students' personal autonomy at each level of linguistic competence. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), Higher Education
Listening Comprehension and Recall Abilities in Adolescents with Language-Learning Disabilities and without Disabilities for Social Studies Lectures.
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Ward-Lonergan, Jeannene M.; Liles, Betty Z.; Anderson, Angela M. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1998
Listening comprehension and recall abilities for social studies lectures were examined and compared in 20 adolescent males with language-learning disabilities (LLD) and in 29 controls. Regardless of lecture type (comparison or causatory expository discourse structures) or question type (literal or inferential comprehension), the performance of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Audiolingual Skills, Language Impairments, Language Processing
Detection of Mispronunciations: A Comparison of Adults, Normal-Speaking Children, and Children with Articulation Errors.
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Bernthal, John E.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Comparison of normal-speaking (N=20) and misarticulating (N=20) four- to six-year-olds and adults (N=16) revealed that adults were significantly more accurate in detecting mispronunciations than either group of children, while performance between the two groups of children was similar. Words that children found most difficult were also those on…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Articulation (Speech), Articulation Impairments