The difficulties of assessing and grading fluency in Japanese for advanced students on oral examinations is discussed. Factors of accuracy of grammar and vocabulary, pronunciation, and ease of expression are discussed. (CHK)

Discusses the techniques, rhetorical principles, and interaction skills appropriate to teaching oral communicative competence. (RL)

Upon the request of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), Florida State University (FSU) is required to enact a program designed to graduate students with a certain degree of oral communication competency. While communication majors and minors are required to enroll in a public speaking course, no student at FSU has the option…

Second and concluding part of a continued article. (SK)

Earlier version of this article read at the Conference on Continuities and Discontinuities in Afro-American Societies and Cultures, Mona, Jamaica, April 2-4, 1970. Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)

Describes criteria to discover the relative strengths and weaknesses within the single child in an effort to gain an idea what the emphasis will be in instruction for each particular child in the classroom. (Authors/MB)

Play experiences provide a great medium for strengthening communication skills in a meaningful and purposeful way. (Author)

Presents outlines and objectives of two inservice, eight-week seminars on effective writing and oral presentation designed for an engineering firm. (AEA)

A quantitative model of speech development is proposed based on observations of normal hearing and congenitally deaf children. Nonlinear controls used during the development of suprasegmental and segmental aspects of speech are identified. Linguistic components of speech are ignored. The importance of the associative cortex in speech-motor control…

Suggests ways of gradually developing delivery skills in public speaking by students in business speech courses. (RL)

Discusses four major problems in defining speaking and listening as basic skills: lack of systematic attention to social communication, the need to identify salient social contexts for literate communication behavior, the need to explicate behaviors one must exhibit to be considered literate, and the difficulty in assessing functional…

Reviews research on the importance of oral language for the child and provides a framework for curriculum design based on talk purposes, talk contexts, and talk planning. (DD)