Moran, Mary Ross2015-01-142015-01-141980-01-01Moran, M. R. (1980) An Investigation of the Demands on Oral Language Skills of Learning Disabled Students in Secondary Classrooms [Research Report 1]. Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, Lawrence, KS.https://hdl.handle.net/1808/16248This research was published by the KU Center for Research on Learning, formerly known as the University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities.The demands placed upon students in mainstream secondary classrooms by the oral language behaviors of teachers were investigated by applying 12 categories of utterance types to audiotape-recorded class sessions. Data were analyzed for the total group of 32 teachers, for junior and senior high teachers as two independent groups, and for teachers of English, mathematics, science and social studies as four independent groups. Analysis of variance revealed significant differences in favor of lectures over questions, commands over checks of understanding of commands, and commands over feedback. Results support a conclusion that the lecture format of secondary core classrooms does not take into account the learning characteristics of learning disabled students.BookopenAccess