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Hoag, Constance L.; Wood, Robert W. – 1990
This study investigated the current policies and programs in selected teacher-training colleges and universities to determine if listening skills are being taught. In addition, language arts professors' attitudes toward the teaching of listening skills were surveyed. Opportunities provided for preservice teachers to observe, demonstrate, and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Higher Education, Language Arts
DeVries, Linda; Sockwell, Recardo – 1990
The purpose of this study was to determine whether at-risk kindergartners and first graders engaged in a regular curriculum supplemented by the WORDPLAY program would attain greater receptive and expressive language skills than similar students engaged in the regular curriculum only. WORDPLAY is a program specifically designed to provide extensive…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Enrichment Activities
Stark, Joel; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1968
The article describes language development techniques used with a 5-year-old autistic boy to increase his verbal behavior. Intervention consisted of 1.5 hour sessions four times a week over an 8-month period. The intervention focused on increasing nonvocal imitation, vocal imitation, verbal labeling, and verbal discrimination. Development of…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Case Studies
Clay County Schools, Montpelier, MS. – 1982
The curriculum outlines objectives, materials, and activities for preschoolers with speech/language delay. The curriculum is intended for classroom use within a normal instructional schedule. The curriculum emphasizes building of receptive and expressive language. Activities address such developmental skills as socialization, family living,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Guides, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language
Sawyer, Walter E.; Sawyer, Jean – 1982
In 1981, James Coleman reported results of a study indicating that private schools were superior to public schools. He claimed that supporting private schools through tax credits or vouchers was in the interest of society. To explore the possibility that differences attributed to schools might be due to differences in student skills, motivation,…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Educational Vouchers, Kindergarten Children
Gowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E. – 1977
Developmental trends in the effects of expectations regarding agent/action matches on judgments of sentence acceptability were investigated. Five sentences reflected expected relations ("harmonious") and five contradicted them ("contrary"). Twelve subjects each were in grades 4 through 8 during year 1; the same 60 subjects…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Children, Grammar
Teyber, Edward C.; And Others – 1977
Oral responses of 180 male and female undergraduates to scenarios containing positive-loving, neutral-informational, and/or negative-rejecting (male) child communications were obtained and scored along 25 specific categories, as well as a global rating of acceptance/rejection of child. A factor analysis generated six factors, which, along with the…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Affective Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Merchant, Jerrold J. – 1978
Noting that an increasing number of rape victims who seek alternatives to police procedures do so because of the insensitive behavior of the investigating police officer, this paper provides a model of interpersonal communication skills that will enable police officers to better relate to and support the victims of rape. The areas covered in the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Feminism, Information Theory, Interpersonal Relationship
Holladay, Howard P. – 1971
The study examined the attitudes Mexican American parents had about the best and worst ways for school personnel to communicate with them about typical school situations. Bilingual interviewers questioned 130 Mexican American parents in the East Los Angeles area to gather data relating to 3 sets of variables which were then correlated and…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Demography, Family Characteristics
Larson, Carl E., Ed.; Dance, Frank E. X., Ed. – 1968
This book is a collection of fourteen papers presented at the communication colloquium of the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, during the 1967-68 academic year. The essays have been organized into three sections. Section I: "General Perspectives on Communication" contains presentations which are addressed to basic theoretical and conceptual…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict Resolution, Information Theory, Interaction Process Analysis
Mittler, Peter; Swann, Will – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1976
Examined was the language and communication development of 1,381 severely subnormal students in 19 schools in northwest England. (CL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Expressive Language
Sorace, Antonella – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1986
Describes a project that considers: how one's ability to produce non-native linguistic intuitions develops during adult second language acquisition; how non-native intuitions relate to the emerging of one's receptive and productive abilities in a second language; and what may be the appropriate empirical methodologies for collecting and analyzing…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria

Pudlas, Kenneth A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1987
The study measured hearing-impaired (N=106) students' reception of language presented via five modes: oral, aural, manual, oral-aural;, and simultaneous manual and oral. The simultaneous manual and oral and the manual modes received the highest ratings. Results are discussed in terms of theories of cognitive processing and selective attention.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Aural Learning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
Hollis, John H.; And Others – Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, 1986
Four severely/profoundly hearing-impaired preschool children (ages 4-5) were given six vocabulary tasks (receptive, associative, and expressive) involving auditory and visual sensory modalities. Data confirmed that lipreading (visual modality) could be substituted for speech. However, for novice lipreaders, words with auditory-visual confusions…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Deafness, Expressive Language, Hearing Impairments

Cole, Diane; LaVoie, Joseph C. – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Developmental changes in specific types of fantasy play and the relation of role taking, egocentrism, and receptive vocabulary were examined in two- to six-year-olds. Both frequency and duration of material and ideational fantasy play increased with age, but play patterns differed. Data suggest developmental progression from object to person…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education