Suggestions on incorporating children's chants, games, riddles, and songs into the language arts program. (SP)

Provides evidence that in producing voiceless stops in terms of voice-onset-time values, children first overshoot adult values and then only gradually draw back toward adult values. (Author/RL)

Books A and B in this set of materials designed to develop reading skills each contain fourteen dialogs on everyday social and business situations that require use of the telephone. The correlated exercises contained in the accompanying Workbooks A and B test comprehension, mastery of patterns, and understanding of the use of the telephone and…

Language arts programs are sometimes aimless because elementary teachers are not quite sure what is meant by the term "language arts." Often the typical language arts offering lacks a maintenance program which can reinforce learning and correct misinformation. Or, the pupils draw back when usage or mechanics are mentioned because they have…

This study investigated the written and oral discourse of a subject with an established reputation as an author, editor, lecturer, and television host, to determine whether his written discourse was more complex syntactically than his spoken discourse. The oral language sample was taken from a taped television program in which the speaker…

Describes a tool for determining a student's level of language development through oral responses; indicates a positive correlation between achievement test scores and oral language production. (MAI)

Choral speaking of nursery rhymes is an excellent way to enrich the classroom program. (MM)

Presents interview questions and procedures for determining the verbal proficiency levels of new English as a second language (ESL) students. (SK)

In this article I discuss the emergence of practices of "hearing" in the midst of English language learning activities. I focus on listening activities during oral English lessons at two public high schools in Tokyo, Japan. One setting is a liberal arts high school. The other is a technical high school where students are trained in…

From a special report, "What's New in Curriculum.

ENGLISH SPEAKING, LEVEL I, IS INTENDED TO BE USED AS A TEACHING GUIDE FOR NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING ADULTS OR TO INTRODUCE THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. THE OBJECTIVES ARE TO TEACH STUDENTS BEGINNING ORAL FACILITY AND TO TEACH THEM TO READ AND WRITE WORDS IN UNDERSTANDABLE SENTENCE PATTERNS. THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH ARE TAUGHT WITHIN THE…