Deficits in social-communication skills are a core feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Deficits in social communication progress into adolescence and adulthood, making complex social interactions particularly difficult and preventing the development of meaningful friendships. Interventions aimed to improve conversational skills needed to…

As workloads of faculty and staff increase in higher education, it seems important for new learning opportunities to be devised to improve individual progress through basic musicianship courses. Many university music departments rely on in-class instruction and individual work sessions with the instructors of these courses to enhance student…

One of the most salient aspects of speech is accent--either dialectal differences attributable to region or class, or phonological variations resulting from L1 influence on the L2. Our primary concern is with the latter, because of the strong social, psychological, and communicative consequences of speaking with an L2 accent. The decline of…

Reviews studies to date on rate-controlled speech recording in foreign language teaching. Research indicates great potential and lack of a theoretical structure for such practice. (Author/BK)

WHILE EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF LANGUAGE TEACHING IS TODAY SUBORDINATE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPEAKING, PROBLEMS WILL DEVELOP UNLESS THERE IS AN ESSENTIAL REWORKING OF METHODOLOGY AND AN ESTABLISHMENT OF A SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE ORAL FACILITY. CONSCIOUSNESS OF GRAMMATICAL PHENOMENA IS INDISPENSABLE FOR RAPID MASTERY OF SPOKEN RUSSIAN. THE…

Paper presented at the Fall Conference of the National Association of Language Laboratory Directors at Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, October 16, 1971. (DS)

Varied exercises are offered for teachers to use in sharpening students' listening skills. (DG)

Paper presented at the Joint Council of Language Associations Conference at the University of Nottingham, England, December 1971. (DS)

The bibliography proper is preceded by an introduction which traces the development of radio technology and the use of the radio in language teaching since 1923. The bibliography is organized into four sections and an appendix. The four sections correspond to the four different uses to which radio has been put in second language teaching, namely:…

A discussion of language-teaching programes via television in Great Britain. (HB)

Based on a paper by H. Schenk presented at 3. Arbeitstagung der Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Linguistik, Stuttgart, West Germany, 7-9 October, 1971 (Third Workshop of the Society for Applied Linguistics). (DD)