This glossary was developed to aid English-speaking health workers in Guatemala in translating health and nutrition terms from English to Spanish. Because Guatemala is renowned for its extensive vocabulary of "modismos", or slang, a column has been added to facilitate adaptation of the glossary to regional variations. The terms in the…

Part 8 of a continued article. (SK)

This research was directed toward uncovering and documenting relationships that exist between language and ideology in multilingual subjects. It is reported as a study complete in itself, though it was originally conceived as the first phase of a research effort whose purpose was to demonstrate that the experimental manipulation of belief systems…

Focus was on the adaptation made by a specific Hispanic elderly population to a federally funded nutrition project. (NQ)

The factive nominal construction of Spanish shows to what extent semantic notions and syntactic constraints are mutually influential. Positive presupposition on the part of the speaker as to truth or falsehood of a subordinate proposition is reflected by the use of the indicative mood; negative or indefinite presupposition by use of the…

The phonetics and phonological system of the Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish dialect is discussed, showing its similarities to and borrowings from modern Spanish and Bulgarian. Treatment of phonemes is analyzed in detail. (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)

Problems remain, but Joe's boys don't get punished for speaking Spanish, and they go to the same schools as the "gabachos". (Editor)

Contradicts the single subjunctive theory of Dwight Bolinger and supports Samuel Gili Y Gaya in recognizing the subjunctive as more than one syntactic phenomenon. (CK)

An essay on the Spanish word "vaina," which originally meant "sheath,""scabbard,""pod" or "husk," but which in several Latin American countries now translates as "nuisance," or "bother." (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)

English phrases with Spanish translations are presented under the following headings: coping with the language barrier, useful forms of etiquette, giving information about yourself, recognizing signs, dealing with money, dealing with time, locating things, describing things and people, doing things, going places, conveying information, health,…

This international glossary of adult education, its full text in English, Spanish, and French, is intended to establish generally acceptable international terminology in three major world languages to facilitate cooperation in the field of adult education. The alphabetical definition of terms, according to their spelling in each language, is…

THE BACKGROUND AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SPANISH SPEAKING PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHWEST ARE DISCUSSED. THE SPANISH SPEAKING PEOPLE ARE A HETEROGENEOUS GROUP COMPOSED OF SPANISH-AMERICANS, MEXICAN-AMERICANS, AND MEXICANS INTERMIXED WITH INDIANS. THE SOUTHWEST WAS SETTLED BY THEM DURING THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. HERE THEY WERE ISOLATED UNTIL THE 19TH…

WITH THE INCREASING PRESSURES FOR TEACHING MORE SUBJECTS AND DEVOTING MORE TIME TO PRESENT SUBJECTS, IS THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A WORTHWHILE OBJECTIVE. A 3 YEAR STUDY IN THE ST. PAUL AREA ATTEMPTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER DEVOTING 15 MINUTES PER DAY TO SPANISH INSTRUCTION VIA TELEVISION HAD AN EFFECT ON LEARNING IN OTHER…