Research compared Mexico's television-based Telesecundaria (TS) with its more traditional secondary school counterpart, the Ensenanza Directa (ED). The data collected indicated that the TS schools tended to be located in poorer rural communities and to have larger classes and less adequate facilities; its students were generally older and from…

On November 2, all Mexican Americans remember their dead as Mexico does on that same day. Called "El Dia de los Muertos" (Day of the Dead), the dead are remembered posthumously with flowers, candles, music, prayers, chants, and wreaths. The people go to cemeteries to clean tombs, lay fresh or artificial flowers on them, and pray for…

Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of populations resident in the 200 larger school districts in the State of Washington are delineated in this second in a series of three reports. This report is designed to furnish detailed demographic aspects of such data for the State educational programs. To implement this objective, tabular…

The goal of the English as a Second Language (ESL) program, partially funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is to help youngsters master the oral and written skills of English which are necessary for success in an English-speaking mainstream education. Since the non-English speaking youngster attends an ESL class for…

Given the series of activities included in this module on the importance of cultural context in the teaching of second languages, the participant should be able to: (a) prepare a culturally relevant grammatical exercise for a specific group of Puerto Rican Spanish-speakers, (b) list several possible activities for using the learner's cultural…

The urban-associated adjustment problems of Spanish speaking migrants to Seattle, Washington were examined. A sample of 100 migrant household heads were interviewed to learn why they had moved to Seattle, to gain insights into the adjustment process, and to search for ways to facilitate their accommodation to an urban life style. All of the…

Short biographies of 26 Mexican American men and women are presented in this textbook for 8th grade students. The biographies reveal how each individual has made an impact upon the life of the Mexican American and on our society. Numerous occupations, professions, life styles, economic conditions, and different political points of view are…

The study reported here compares the performance on a mental ability test of children in grades two and three from homes in which English is the language spoken with those from homes in which Spanish is the language used. During the Spring semester, the InterAmerican Tests of General Ability, Level Two, and their Spanish parallel, were…

Selected by the Division of Manpower Development and Training, U. S. Office of Education (HEW, Washington, D. C.), the Montal Educational Associates conducted a Symposium for Bilingual-Bicultural Educational Manpower Development. The Symposium's purpose was to bring together Spanish Speaking educational and manpower experts from throughout the…

This document covers 12 Community School District 1 ESEA Title I programs and State Urban Education porgrams. The Comprehensive Reading Program had four components. The Bilingual-Bicultural Program was funded jointly by Title I and Title VII. The Elementary Bilingual Program afforded Spanish-speaking pupils an early opportunity to experience…

Prepared as part of the Career Education Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the paper deals with curriculum development and implementation. Using current literature on the topic as a point of reference, topics dealt with include: (1) the role of curriculum in career education, (2) the impact of career education on State…

In this experimental study for developing a bilingual diagnostic language test, findings in English and Spanish about monolingual language acquisition were used in designing materials to investigate the bilingual language acquisition (English and Spanish) of children five to eight years old in Tucson, Arizona. Attention was focused on acquisition…

A study of the audience of a Spanish-language-only television station in Southern California was conducted in order to gain information about media utilization and attitudes of Spanish-speaking people in the United States. The first part of this report outlines the major historical and sociological factors which have kept Mexican Americans…

The mission of this 1973 multilingual multicultural conference was to focus on the student who has a primary language other than English as his language of conceptualization. The conference attempted to illustrate the need for bilingual bicultural education in which a student, using his primary language, gains access to an academic world within…

This reading textbook was designed for the elementary school Spanish-speaking student. It presents short selections pertaining to city life, with special emphasis on streets, transportation, public services, personal relations, and the urban environment. The presentation includes color illustrations. See FL 004 070 for the accompanying workbook.…