Techniques for alleviating language students' fears of listening to themselves and making themselves heard and understood, using reading aloud, are presented and illustrated. (MSE)

It is asserted that the teacher and learner of a foreign language must learn to direct his attention to the auditory phenomena of the new language. Several auditory exercises in which some of the basic parameters of speech are involved--number, order, duration, pitch, vowel quality--are described. (RM)

Experiments supported the following: (1) output-error assumption, by finding larger emotional responses for verbal slips than for correct vocalizations; (2) editing assumption, by finding that edited vocal responses require more processing time than unedited responses; (3) social acceptability editing criterion, by observing that neutral verbal…

This article, addressed to singing and choral teachers, examines functional voice disorders resulting from incorrect or abused functions of the laryngeal mechanism. Symptoms, testing methods, and correction techniques, short of medical help, are outlined for disorders of resonance, registration, articulation, and of the vocal fold mass.…

Though frequently defined as the difference between spontaneous and imitative testing responses, additional clinical procedures for the evaluation of stimulability are reviewed. The clinical implications of isolated sound, syllable, and word-level stimulability are also discussed. (Author/DLS)