Attempts to formulate practical objectives in teaching foreign language classes. Phase one presents materials, and phase two relates grammatical structures and textbook materials to students' own interest and personal experience. (DS)

Address delivered at the annual meeting of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Birmingham, England, April 21, 1970. (DS)

Results of a study of linguistic structure acquisition by children aged 18 to 24 months whose first language is Spanish include inventories of verbs and nouns used by the children and show which tenses appear first and in which order and the appearance of noun plurals and articles with nouns. (SB)

Discusses a survey which ranks relative student interest in different aspects of Hispanic culture. Information on family sphere, social behavior, values, institutions and attitudes, and diversions are considered most important. (EKN)

Schools are faced with problems resulting from the increasing number of Spanish-speaking people in the United States. The growing bilingual labor force should be of concern to educators. Business educators must assist non-English-speaking students through a sound program of study. (JOW)

Postulates changes in morphology and higher levels of grammar induced by consonant deletion processes to compensate for reduced sentence redundancy and increased possibility of ambiguity. Examines evidence provided by the behavior of two Puerto Rican Spanish phonological variables interacting with the grammatical system in the capacity of plural…

This article discusses the bilingual programs at two community colleges with large concentrations of native Spanish speakers, Hostos Community College in New York City and Essex County College in Newark, New Jersey. (CFM)

This article is the second on a series of listings of Provencal, Iberian, and Latin American folk music records, based on records available in France as of the beginning of 1976. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Examines the structures present in the writing samples of bilingual respondents to written questions in Spanish in order to determine which forms represent a departure from standard Spanish; discusses the patterns that develop; and offers insights into the factors underlying this systemic departure from standard written Spanish. (26 references)…

Offers a panoramic view of the assortment of theories and strategies dedicated to language teaching over the past 30 years and argues in favor of a method to join literature and language from the first weeks of study. Analyzes a series of texts that demonstrate how Spanish literature holds out new and uncommon options to understand the world. (EV)

This annotated bibliography includes 18 titles that appeal to Spanish-speaking teens under the categories of contemporary novels, historical fiction, longtime favorites, health, and myths and legends. A sidebar lists dealers of books in Spanish for children and young adults. (LRW)

The annual list of dissertations completed and in preparation is intended to provide a record for doctoral students and their advisors. Information on the list is provided by individual departments offering the Ph.D. degree. The list is divided into general categories including Brazilian, Spanish, Spanish American, Filipino, and Portuguese…

Examines two Spanish-language short stories that use language as a codifying system for examining false institutions, antiquated prejudices, and iron-cal hierarchies that have been erected in the name of Mexican culture. (12 references) (GLR)

Shows that dialectal origin of native Spanish speakers is a stronger predictor of pronoun expression than language contact with English, with particular focus on Spanish speakers living in New York City. Concludes that different Latin American speech communities in New York City are not yet converging into a New York Spanish, but that Spanish in…