In studies with 22 normal hearing adults and two hearing impaired children (12-13 years old), speech was presented under different degrees of optical distortion. (CL)

Experiments related to studying innate responsiveness to auditory stimuli in various infant organisms establish that animals have innate perceptual knowledge. (SA)

By using the concept of modalities (learning processes involving the auditory and/or visual realms) systematically, a teacher may be sure that all modality tasks are covered and that reading weaknesses and strengths are discovered. (MB)

Compares the visual and auditory processing factors of the Woodcock Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability, Revised (WJR COG) and the visual and auditory memory factors of the Learning Efficiency Test, II (LET-II) among 120 college students. Results indicate two significant performance differences between the WJR COG and LET-II. (RJM)

Compared were a programmed approach to a conventional approach. (CH)

Research conducted over the past 80 years is examined to answer three questions on sensory modality as it relates to reading. In the 18 studies reviewed which relate to the superiority of one modality over another, there was no consensus regarding the relative effectiveness of modalities among adults. The evidence leans toward greater…

The audio-lingual method of foreign language instruction predominant in the United States emphasizes the lingual at the expense of the aural. Language acquisition is viewed as verbal behavior. Instead of a response-oriented learning approach, a stimulus-oriented one should be used, with listening as the focal skill from which speaking would…

The depth and range of the corpus of written Chinese symbols used by 9-year-old Hong Kong children were studied in order to compile a minimum written Chinese vocabulary list. Error patterns of children were also analyzed. After presenting some characteristics of the language and reviewing previous studies, the methodology was described. The sample…

In an English class and a writing laboratory, dictating machines were used to increase skills of composition and to work out methods for the most advantageous use of the machines. Fifteen students out of a class of 100 used the machines for regular class work; in the laboratory, out of 70 volunteers, 35 were taught by tutors, and 35 were put to…

This study was undertaken to explore the "listening-sociocultural" area as well as to provide more information about the interrelationships between listening and reading at different grade levels. The findings indicated that a series of listening lessons based on Russell and Russell's "Listening Aids Through the Grades" and the Educational…

The feasibility of offering, on a voluntary, no credit basis, a programmed audio-tutorial instruction approach to the listening skills was investigated; and the extent to which these materials meet the listening needs of students was studied. Two groups of 22 and 20 students at a state university were chosen randomly from volunteers. The…

Cross-modal and intramodal matching ability with visual and auditory content was studied in low, normal, and high IQ fourth-grade children (N=240) who were also administered tests of simultaneous and successive syntheses. Results indicated that simultaneous and successive central processes are involved in modality matching performance and that…

Examines the development of intermodal perception in infancy by means of a new method, the intermodal learning method. Results support the claim that only subjects who had been familiarized with appropriate and synchronous film and soundtrack pairs showed evidence of intermodal learning. (Author/RWB)

The degree to which concreteness of prose material presented in an auditory fashion would interact with learners' lateral preference under different right hemispheric presentation conditions was investigated with 96 adults. Subjects recalled a greater number of ideas when the passage was concrete. Abstractness interacted with cerebral dominance.…