Reintegrating students with emotional and behavioral disorders from alternative school settings to the mainstream school environment presents significant challenges. Students are frequently unsuccessful when they return to home districts. Most researchers address the problem in a variable-centric manner, and explore specific student, teacher,…

A study examined the types of communication technologies being used by United States-based corporations with operations in Mexico to determine the challenges these companies face when communicating across the border. A total of 703 U.S. corporations doing business with Mexico (culled from lists in two professional directories) were chosen for the…

On the basis of theoretical reflection and personal experience, this paper offers five guidelines for fostering dialogical learning experiences in consulting in the field of communication. After a discussion of the author's dialogical learning experiences in overcoming communication problems with his father, the paper provides these guidelines:…

Letters of recommendation too often do not tell recipients what they need to know about a candidate. The letters may address irrelevant qualities of the candidate or they may discuss only vague generalities. Faced with this problem, many employers prefer telephone interviews; however, people in higher education continue to rely on letters of…

Communication is a key concept as being the major tool for people in order to satisfy their needs. It is an activity which refers as process and effective communication requires qualified communication with the elimination of communication barriers. As it is known, distance education is a new trend by following contemporary facilities and tools…

Provides a short summary on the background and evolution of the Spanish language, stressing particularly the international role it has played throughout the centuries. This is evident today as Spanish is both an official and working language of the United Nations. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Well-formed objectives meet four major criteria. They contain a subject, a verb, given conditions, and standards. A discussion and outline of the taxonomy of career development includes instructional objectives which might assist career educators in discussing instructional and assessment problems with greater precision. (Author/MW)

Since 1982, the Quality Assurance Committee of the New England Online Users Group (NENON) has focused on communicating online searchers' problems to system vendors and database producers, primarily by distributing check-off and fill-in-the-blank forms to NENON members, collecting and tabulating the forms, and forwarding them to the vendors and…

To assess the communication practices of not-for-profit (NFP) agencies, a study conducted a local survey of 105 NFP organizations in Cleveland, Ohio, in the spring of 1987, specifically examining their public relations activities and campaigns which manage and diffuse information about NFPs to the larger community. First, a focus group sample of…

After defining and describing communication from a cultural perspective, this paper then proposes two areas--shared meaning and shared identity--as being relevant in and rich for communication inquiry. The paper addresses these two areas by (1) specifying assumptions for a cultural perspective on communication, (2) defining culture as a…

An examination of the extent to which the polylectal grammar, a unified grammar constructed by a listener that subsumes the dialect differences that he has to cope with in a multidialectal situation, is an appropriate means of modelling listeners' receptive command of dialects other than their native one presents evidence that cross-dialectal…

An attempt to detail the varied perceptions held by educators and those held by politicians. Provides the actual language they employ to justify their shared disdain. The composite quotations in the article help put the reader in "the other guy's shoes", and serve to modify behavior patterns, which help to narrow the chasm between these two key…

Describes the broad role of public relations in institutions of higher education; the need for a public relations leadership; the responsibility of colleges and universities to their publics; and prospects for achieving this kind of communication. (Author/PG)

Access to the news is sometimes denied journalists because they do not meet whatever definition of "reporter" is being used in a particular situation. This paper examines issues related to the identification of persons as reporters. Among the topics considered are ordinances authorizing the issuance of press cards to reporters; court…

Two studies, designed to investigate the development of trait oral communication apprehension among children, served as validation for a preliminary factor-based instrument called the Measure of Elementary Communication Apprehension (MECA). MECA was administered orally to young children and in written form to older adolescent students. Subjects…