The results are discussed in terms of the extent to which the texts advance the teaching of listening and speaking as an interdependent oral activity. Overall, the texts failed to reflect the pedagogy for teaching the oral modality essential to listening instruction. Second, with two exceptions, the texts seldom developed instruction with an emphasis on speech as an oral activity. Listening was seldom integrated with the teaching of speech within these texts. The results of this analysis confirmed that these texts do contain treatments of listening but with one exception, only to a slight degree. Six research questions asked about listening inclusion and concentration, differences in written and oral modalities, delivery, development via writing, discussion of the oral modality, and pedagogy. The current study sought both to replicate these findings and to examine the emphasis on the oral modality as reflected in public-speaking texts. Ample research illustrates the lack of listening instruction. Their prediction has not proved accurate. Beyond the prediction, they established a template for the pedagogy that emphasized the oral modality. View all references) predicted that listening would increasingly be taught especially in an integrated approach with speaking.
Speaking and listening: A guide to effective oral-aural communication, Dubuque, IA: W.C. Highlighting the extent to which the Spanish-Aztec conflict inspired historical reimaginings, these essays reveal how the Conquest became such an iconic event-and a perennial medium by which both Europe and the Americas have, for centuries, endeavored to understand themselves as well as their relationship to others.Ī valuable contribution to ongoing efforts to demythologize and properly memorialize the Spanish-Aztec War of 1519–21, this volume also aptly illustrates how we make history of the past and how that history-making shapes our present-and possibly our future.This article presents the results of a content analysis of 10 current public-speaking textbooks to determine the nature and extent to which they teach listening in an integrated approach with public speaking as an oral activity. Writing from a range of perspectives and disciplines, the authors demonstrate that the Conquest of Mexico, whose significance has ever been marked by fundamental ambiguity, has consistently influenced how people across the modern Atlantic world conceptualize themselves and their societies.Īfter considering the looming, ubiquitous role of the Conquest in Mexican thought and discourse since the sixteenth century, the contributors go farther afield to examine the symbolic relevance of the Conquest in contexts as diverse as Tudor England, Bourbon France, postimperial Spain, modern Latin America, and even contemporary Hollywood. In essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how politicians, writers, artists, activists, and others have strategically reimagined the Conquest to influence and manipulate perceptions within a wide variety of controversies and debates, including those touching on indigeneity, nationalism, imperialism, modernity, and multiculturalism. But equally consequential, as this volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed. The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world.
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