Rationales and approaches for teaching pronunciation in the intermediate foreign language classroom are discussed. Pronunciation should be taught regularly and overtly because perfecting pronunciation is an essential part of learning to communicate, and because intermediate students have enough vocabulary to generalize pronunciation rules to new…

The value of a rally, or scavenger hunt, in providing opportunities for second language learning is described. Teams are made up of people who do not speak the same native language. The players then begin the hunt that is designed as a noncompetitive creative language practice through participation exercise. Past experience indicates that the hunt…

A total of 271 items--words, phrases and affixes--were added to the common Spanish dictionary in the period between October and December 1974. This article lists the principal additions, each organized within a larger semantic category. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

Discusses the derivation and use of several Spanish figures of speech featuring animals--the ox, the cow, the calf and the bull. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

Analysis of how word-final "m" in Spanish is pronounced in various distributional situations. The major tendency is for it to become an "n" except before "p" and "b" when it is pronounced as bilabial sonorant "m." (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

Differentiates between "hipobolicos", i.e., people lacking in a feeling for hyperbole; and "hiperbolicos", people with a feeling for hyperbole. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Lists, with examples, the rules for the pronunciation of the phonemes /x/ and /s/ in Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Compares Chicano English and Anglo English speech in both linguistic and social terms. (CK)

Provides a clear and brief explanation on the Spanish origin of the pronoun "Vos" (you). (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Some of the orthographical and phonological problems involved in the use of the Spanish prepositions "ex" and "post" are discussed. Examples are provided. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Critically comments on the renovations made by the Royal Spanish Academy in their newest outline of Spanish grammar (Esbozo de una nueva Gramatica de la lengua espanola). (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Discusses the origin and evolution of idiomatic expressions in Puerto Rican Spanish. Many examples are provided. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Rules for irregular Spanish verbs are presented here in an unusual way as an aid for students and teachers. (CK)

A bilingual dictionary must be more accurate in definitions than a monolingual. This paper touches on problems of transference between languages, linguistic "cannibalism," and lexical versus connotative meaning. (CK)

Paraguayan Spanish differs from standard Spanish in a number of lexical and phonological points; several of these are explicated here. (CK)