Reviews the problem of translations and children's books; and explains what bilingual books with a limited vocabulary are available, why anything published in a Spanish-speaking country is likely to be better than books published in the United States, and why a bilingual book is better if originally written in Spanish and translated into English.…

A planetarium program interpreting a Spanish poem about the moon recited by members of an intermediate Spanish class is described. (RM)

A professor in Spain describes his approach in teaching Spanish grammar and literature. (DS)

Outlines linguistic philosophy and ideas of Spanish novelist Benito Perez Galdos as expressed by leading characters in his novels; part of a continuing series. (DS)

Paper presented at the Second International Congress on the Teaching of Spanish in Madrid, Spain, in February 1971. (DS)

Interviews with three leading experts in the field of education for the Spanish speaking. (JF)

The study aimed to develop an instrument that could be used for mental health research with Spanish-speaking populations. The Depression Adjective Check Lists (DACL) used to measure depressive mood was translated into Spanish and administered to 70 Hispanic subjects. Reliability determinations were high and close to those for the English version.…

Discusses the complement and predicate (or adjunct) short clauses (SCs) in active transitive verb structures. Published Spanish literature is reviewed and evaluated, Spanish SC surface structure (SS) is described, an argument is presented against SS restructuring in Spanish, and analyses of several hypotheses are provided. (GLR)

Whether some word linguistic properties studied in English have the same influence on phonological awareness of preschoolers and kindergartners in the Spanish language was studied with 32 Spanish-speaking children. While some effects were similar, others differed. Implications for training for phonological awareness in Spanish are discussed. (SLD)