Argues that rote memorization can be an effective instructional strategy for the acquisition and retention of sequential skills. Presents eight factors to be considered in the management of rote memorization in the classroom and offers a teaching model for a Spanish vocabulary class. (FL)

Explores the interrelationships among mood usage, syntactic contrast and past temporal reference in Spanish. Describes specific effects of varying temporal reference on mood and syntactic signaling, and employs an inventory of five subjunctive determining matrices to show that such effects are best explained by means of a…

Presents study conducted to investigate effect of speed and order of presentation of verb tenses on students' acquisition of present/past distinction. Results show early introduction of past tense will not facilitate acquisition of tense distinction. (BK)

Reports that the Fry readability graph can be adapted to measure Spanish readability at the primary level. (DD)

Various methods which can be used to teach the Spanish accent mark are suggested. These methods reinforce the rules of accents given by the Real Academia. (NQ)

Presents various arguments on the etymology of the Spanish word "trabajo" from several Latin antecedents. (CHK)

Discusses the structure of Spanish noun phrases within the general framework of minimalist syntax. Proposes nominal functional category and feature checking via chain linking and suggests lexical specifications for common and proper nouns accounting for their distribution in the clause. (32 references) (Author/CK)

Lists books recently published in Spanish or translated into Spanish for children and adolescents. The 23 titles annotated include picture books, renditions of the classics for young people, science books, novels, and romances. (SLD)

Lists outstanding science trade books for children written in Spanish for the year 1995. (NB)

Presents results of a longitudinal study of Murcian Spanish carried out following a real-time approach with a retrospective trend design in order to detect and measure the apparent increasing diffusion of standard Castilian features from Northern peninsular Spanish. (Author/VWL)

Investigated whether average Full Scale IQ (FSIQ) differences can be attributed to "g" using the Spanish standardization sample of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III (WAIS III) (n=703 females and 666 men). Results support the conclusion that WAIS III FSIQ does not directly or exclusively measure "g" across the full range…

Examines the relationship between paradigmatic and syntagmatic word knowledge. Familiar concrete nouns were administered in Spanish and English to bilingual students. Students were tested on the ability to provide superordinates, adequate definitions, and object descriptions. Producing superordinates in Spanish was a reliable predictor of the same…

A review of studies on children's syntactic development in Spanish focused on their use of subordinate clauses within complex sentences. Results suggested that, although they made some developmental gains from 2 years of age, 10-year-olds had not acquired the full range of semantic and syntactic expression characteristic of adult use of…

Describes the development of a Spanish version of the Lexile Framework(R) and a Spanish readability equation. Discusses some differences between Spanish and English and how these differences affect the development of the Lexile measures. (SLD)