Describes an experimental pilot project designed to encourage positive attitudes in young children toward children of different cultures through participation in planned activities. (EKN)

The 19-item bibliography surveys the compilations of Mexican-American proverbs published to date and describes each entry (categorized by region--California, New Mexico, Texas, Mexico) in terms of type and quantity of material included, presence or absence of interpretive comments or translations, sources, organization, and accuracy of…

Describes mnemonic devices which can be taught to second-language students to improve their learning including mnemonic reduction, visual word pictures, elaboration, and the keyword method. (BK)

Demonstrates use of Fry Readability Graph (FRG) and Adaptation for Spanish Evaluation (FRASE) graph to assess reading difficulty for use with Spanish material. (BK)

Traces history of Aztec language and culture to show how traces remain in modern Spanish and how they have contributed to other languages. (BK)

Reviews three children's books written in English and Spanish. (AEA)

Many anglicisms can be found in the Spanish of the Castilla region of Spain. English terms for sports, types of beverages, and miscellaneous items are discussed in terms of how they are used in Spanish. (NCR)

Discusses the use of the comma in Spanish and gives examples of its use in Spanish literature. (NCR)

Discusses the uses of the comma in Spanish and shows a poem that can be interpreted in different ways with different punctuation. (NCR)

Presents the use and development of analogical processes in learning to read in Spanish. Finds that 6-year-old children show logical effects in reading pseudowords, and the magnitude of this effect is the same with 10-year-olds. Cautions that 10-year-olds make more lexicalizations when reading pseudowords and that 9-year-olds can make more…

Studied the representation of historical events in 1492 in elementary and junior high school textbooks in Mexico (five textbooks) and Spain (four textbooks). Findings show very different representations of the same events in these two countries. (SLD)

Addresses bilingual phonological development in the prosodic field, by studying the transition from a single metrical foot to the production of one foot preceded by an unstressed syllable or to the production of two consecutive feet. Uses monolingual data to form a baseline comparison with the bilingual data Establishment of two different…

Ninety-nine adult Latino Spanish speaking participants in a court mandated psychotherapeutic group program for parents whose children have been sexually abused were administered a love-attitudes scale. The men in the study are the abusers. Analysis of gender difference showed that the mean scores and endorsement patterns deviated from those in…