Reports on the development and measurement of a course to improve the communicative performance of tax enforcement officers. Includes an account of a unique content-analytic system for measuring communicative performance in situations considered flexibly formulaic transactions with objectives and prescribed strategies. (JMF)

Reports the development of a 14-item index of teachers' affective communication designed to avoid the shortcomings associated with currently available measurement strategies. Recognizes the relationship between the teacher's style of affective communication in the classroom and teacher effectiveness. (JMF)

Presents a program for lifelong learning which (1) advocates communication education for the elderly; (2) specifies communication concepts related to the older learner, including self-concept, role adaptation, and problem solving; (3) explains appropriate instructional methods; and (4) offers pedagogical advantages of this type of program for…

Draws the connection between childhood play and the unifying, actualizing effects of play in human experience. Examines the concept of play and its integrative function from multidisciplinary perspectives, giving a paradigm for looking at the play process in other expressive forms such as ritual, art, and aesthetic experience. (JMF)

Describes a series of one-day interpersonal communication workshops held for corrections personnel using transactional analysis as the primary conceptual training vehicle for stimulating the trainees. Illustrates the process of designing, implementing, and refining a specialized communication training program and provides recommendations for…

Discusses the results of interviews and questionnaires on the oral communication skills needed by research scientists. Proposes an oral communication course for science majors and generally summarizes its content. (JMF)

Discusses the planning, goals, and content of a course in interracial communication at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The laboratory design of the course allows students to learn about their own and others' racial attitudes and behaviors and to practice new interracial communication skills. (JMF)

Discusses a class survey project in which future teachers interview secondary school students to determine their views on education and interpersonal communication. Enables prospective teachers to practice communicating with adolescents, to assess their needs and interests relative to communication education, and to apply educational theories of…

Outlines some recent theoretical discussions of silence as communication. Describes nine exercises the speech communication instructor can use to teach silence and shows which specific function of silence each exercise teaches. (JMF)

A true-false quiz and detailed answers on education and the elderly. Cites 23 supporting documents from the ERIC database on the kinds of available programs, implications for communication educators, what professional educators are doing for the elderly, and what it is like to grow old in America. (JMF)

Presents two viewpoints for helping students with severe communication anxiety and avoidance problems: one based on traditional speech pedagogy; the other based on behavioral clinical psychology. Argues that in most cases the two viewpoints complement rather than contradict each other. (JMF)

Answers some of William Page's criticisms (see preceding article, EJ 227 456) regarding the use of rhetoritherapy v behavior therapy to deal with students who exhibit communication apprehension. Argues that rhetoritherapy deals with people who have problems, not with problems. It is concerned with what can be done about the problem, not what the…

Defines a theory of communication apprehension and discusses it in terms of rhetoritherapy. (See preceding articles, EJ 227 456 and EJ 227 457.) Concludes that each of the two schools provides treatment for different problems. (JMF)

Presents a rhetorical perspective for examining Shakespearean dramatic texts and an instructional framework for translating that perspective into the teaching of solo performance of Shakespearean dramatic literature. Describes techniques for implementing classroom performance that will develop and demonstrate student understanding of the text.…

Investigates the use of humor in basic communication textbooks. Concludes that humor is used frequently to teach rather than simply to attract attention; it is of the harmless, nonsense variety and appears not to be antisocial as far as sex-role stereotypes are concerned. (JMF)