PROPAGANDA AND CRITICAL LISTENING

According to Knower's Index, the Quarterly Journal of Speech Education published its first article on listening in February, 1920, "Speech and the Learning Process" by C. H. Woolbert. With increasing frequency as the years rolled on both the Quarterly Journal and Speech Monographs carried articles on listening. Without exception, however, writers have treated listening as a learning process. All discuss listening comprehension; not one considers critical listening. The same is true of sectional meetings on "Problems in Listening" at conventions of the National Society for the Study of...