Intended for teachers and administrators who wish to assess student oral communication needs before designing an appropriate program, this guide provides a review of tests for measuring acts of speaking and listening. The guide surveys and discusses procedures for assessing speaking and listening skills among school children and focuses on…

Providing for individual differences in ability, interest, and cultural values among students, this guide contains activities, goals, objectives, and resources for teaching speech and drama to middle and junior high school students. The first section offers advice on the organization of speech and drama activities within the school curriculum,…

One of a regular series on the status and progress of studies into the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications of research, this report covers the period of January 1 to March 31, 1982. The 13 studies deal with the following topics: (1) speech perception and memory coding in relation to reading ability,…

People spend about three-fourths of their waking hours engaged in some form of communication and about half of this time speaking and listening. In spite of this, communication generally is ineffective. There are many reasons for improving one's communication skills, the most important being employability. For example, a survey of personnel…

This report is one of a regular series on the status and progress of speech research. The 16 manuscript topics are: the relative accessibility of semantic and deep structure syntactic concepts, some relationships between articulation and perception, reflex activation of laryngeal muscles by sudden induced subglottal pressure changes, dynamic…

Six months after a public speaking workshop was conducted for 15 business executives, the participants were interviewed to determine the longitudinal effects of the training. The interviews were designed to find out which participants reported the greatest behavioral change, whether the training produced any carry-over effects, and what aspects of…

This is the first module of 10 in the German Headstart program. Each of the 2 units in the module contains objectives, exercises, and a self-evaluation quiz. In addition, there are several supplementary exercises and self-evaluations. The objective of this module is to enable the student to pronounce and read German sounds, to find out the…

A packet of three speech assessment instruments has been organized to assist classroom teachers in creating instructional programs that provide adequate oral/aural language experiences for their students. The Koziol-Cercone Assessment of Speaking Skills judges student ability to orally communicate the content of a message. The Koziol-Cercone…

The separation of language study from literary study is advocated in this discussion of today's attitudes on language teaching. Observations of the slow rate of acquisition of speaking and reading skills even among better students leads to suggestions for changes in conventional allocations of time and function assigned to students and teachers as…

This publication includes five papers that were presented at a language communications conference that emphasized integrating the language arts at elementary and secondary school levels. Walter Loban stresses the importance of classroom language activities that involve children in genuine purposes and that link language to thinking. Charles R.…

When children begin formal schooling, their fundamental communication skills, speaking and listening, are well developed but limited in scope and range; it becomes the teacher's task to assist the children in achieving communicative competence. A developmental project called "Developing Communicative Competence in Children" identifies four…

This is one of a series of self-teaching textbooks initially prepared for the Armed Forces and now offered to the public. The emphasis is on speaking rather than on reading or writing. Book 1 is divided into two main sections, each consisting of five lessons and a review section. Each lesson deals with some aspect of daily life, and each is…

This is one of a series of self-teaching textbooks initially prepared for the Armed Forces and now offered to the public. Book 1 is divided into two main parts, each consisting of five learning units and one review unit. Each unit centers around a particular topic and is divided into the following sections: basic sentences, with hints on…

This is one of a series of self-teaching textbooks initially prepared for the Armed Forces and now offered to the public. The text is designed to be used with a native speaker of Danish or with the accompanying recordings. The textbook is divided into two major sections, each consisting of five learning units and one unit for review. Each unit is…

Four methods used in trial examinations in oral English for the Certificate of Secondary Education in England are described, and the assessment system and rating scales are discussed. The four methods are: 1. Reading Aloud, 2. Prepared Talk, 3. Private Conversation about a Visual Stimlus, and 4. Group Discussion. The aim of all the tests is to…