This paper examines etiquette books as repositories of cultural beliefs about the differing ways men and women should talk and the beliefs about the differing ways men and women actually talk. Etiquette books published in the past 150 years are examined to measure consistency or change in these beliefs, and the implications of the study for actual…

Student interest prompted the formation of a Speaker's Bureau in Seminole Senior High School, Seminole, Florida. First, students compiled a list of community contacts, including civic clubs, churches, retirement villages, newspaper offices, and the County School Administration media center. A letter of introduction was composed and speaking…

The purpose of this survey was to examine the trend among Illinois high schools of offering and requiring basic speech courses. It was hypothesized that the trend is increasing. Fifty Illinois public high schools received a seventeen-question questionnaire. The hypothesis was confirmed. (The questions and the responses to the survey are presented…

The status of speech instruction--including an assessment of teacher concerns--in the public secondary schools in Hamilton County, Ohio, was determined by this study. Specifically, the purposes were to determine the extent and kinds of speech and drama instruction, to examine facilities and resources, and to determine instructional methods and…

This study was undertaken to see if agreement existed among speech teachers as to the behavioral objectives necessary for an "A,""B," or "C" level grade on a classroom speech. In a questionnaire, 328 undergraduate speech instructors rated as A, B, or C a list of 14 behavioral objectives constructed by rewriting the…

The purposes of this study are to develop a valid procedure for teaching students to use behavioral objectives and to determine minimal levels of competence in using objectives. It was hypothesized that when objectives are provided for a unit of instruction, subjects trained to use objectives will score significantly higher on an examination…

This study was designed to determine the communication characteristics which group members perceive as constituting the amount of influence of a designated leader, the communication characteristics which designated leaders perceive as consituting their own amount of influence, and the degree of similarity between the leader's and others'…

The presumption that increased media utilization yields better results was tested at Los Angeles Pierce College (California). To study the effect of media on the learning and attitudes of students in the public speaking (Speech I) class, two matched groups of 41 subjects were treated identically, except that the experimental group used tape…

Suggests methods of improving speaking and listening and listening skills in the elementary school. (DD)

Describes the speech communication curriculum of Methodist Ladies' College at Kew, where speech education and drama are treated within a comprehensive notion of communication skills. (RL)

Sixty minimally verbal autistic children (mean age five years) were exposed to one of four language training conditions: speech alone, sign alone, or simultaneous or alternate presentation of speech and sign. Regardless of training condition, pretreatment verbal imitation ability positively predicted the size of child-initiated spoken vocabulary…

Survey results indicate that (1) nurses, dentists, and doctors consider communication training valuable and also necessary at several educational levels and (2) most health professionals receive their communication training from instructors outside the speech communication discipline. Calls for more involvement by speech communication educators.…

Identifies the purpose and scope of the 1986 "Communication Quarterly" Educational Supplement. Notes that 14 of the 17 articles included are devoted to an analysis of the "Great Teachers in the Speech Communication Classroom." Indicates that the last three articles treat aspects of the role of research in communication education. (JD)

Notes the outstanding congruity between Wayne Brockriede's teaching methods and the theoretical principles advocated in his scholarship, and presents his (1) philosophical, argumentative, and critical methods; (2) personal and mentor relationships; and (3) connoisseurship and playfulness with ideas. (JD)