To develop communication skills among non-participating students, teachers must recognize, diagnose, and treat individual problems of the reticent child. Teachers need to convey the concept of an "open" classroom where all ideas are welcome, to develop questioning and "active listening," to encourage eye contact, to make use of…

Of two-dozen pavilions at Expo 70 visited and observed for their film presentations, in only one case was the film displayed on a single screen of standard shape. This exception was the Russian three-dimensional film. All the other films were shown on wide screens or multiple screens. Screens were side-by-side, above and below each other, facing…

This guide to recent sources of published information in hearing, speech, and communication disorders lists 759 references. The items are arranged in nine major sections and are annotated except when reasons of processing prevent. The section on reviews covers hearing, language, speech, and additional reviews; the section on special serials…

In an attempt to provide information about the best strategies for effecting change, data were collected from 65 school board members, 16 superintendents, 16 principals, and 358 teachers in 16 southern California school districts. Two scales to measure the dependent variable, rate of adoption of educational innovations, were developed--one to…

This volume is a collection of papers presented at a 1962 symposium on school dropouts. Participants represented the disciplines of both education and the social sciences. It was hoped that the multidisciplinary contributions might crystallize a contextual statement about the nature of the dropout problem as well as indications for effective…

The activities presented in this book, designed to help children translate their thoughts into spoken and written words, can supplement an elementary teacher's own language arts lessons. Objectives for each activity are listed, with the general focus of the many oral activities being to develop a rich verbal background for future written work. The…

Communication disorders presentations include the following: expectations of the teacher of the deaf for audiological and psychological services to the young deaf child by Doin E. Hicks; questions and answers on stuttering therapy by Frank J. Falck; the knowledge of words of a deaf child by Toby Silverman; and a comparative study of the modality…

A description of the audiolingual nature of second languages as they are learned by all children introduces this discussion of the suitability of teaching foreign languages to the visually handicapped and the added dimension it would give to life. The role of the language laboratory in learning a foreign language is stressed. An annotated…

The major purpose of this project was to plan, implement, and evaluate a high school one-semester experimental curriculum stressing the communicative aspects of the arts and humanities as a means of student self-discovery and realization. The curriculum consisted of 4 major unit, composed of individual study modules, on popular media and on…

Three authorities in the field of education offer their views on the technological revolution in instructional materials. Fred Hechinger, education editor of the New York Times, discusses the range of devices available, from film strips to computers. He feels that industry is oversold on the future of educational technology, both because of the…

The 10 readings collected in this volume emphasize the value of oral interpretation as an approach to teaching literature in the secondary school. Wallace A. Bacon indicates how the act of interpretation as it is experienced in the reader's mind can recreate the act of literature. Frances L. McCurdy, Margaret M. Neville, and Allen Bales discuss…

The first 6-month supplement to "ERIC Documents on the Teaching of English: 1956-1968" (ED 029 045), this bibliography of 522 items represents a continuing effort to bring together in a single source a list of all the documents relating to English teaching which have been processed into the ERIC system. It includes documents announced in the…

Study objectives were to find out whether the use of disadvantaged women as parent educators of indigent mothers of infants and young children (1) enhanced the development of the infants and children, (2) increased the mother's competence and sense of personal worth, and (3) contributed to the knowledge of the home life of infants in the study. In…

An analysis of the interrelationship of speaking and reading skills in second language acquisition is the object of an experiment described in this article. The hypothesis tested suggests that written stimuli have a negative influence on the formation of speech habits of beginning students. Objectives, methods, and subject and data selection are…

The major portion of this book discusses factors in second language learning, including age, intelligence and background, previous linguistic experience, motivation, other student characteristics, objectives, contact hours, the teacher, and materials. Attention is also given to the state of language learning, children and language learning,…