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Lists frequently used words and phrases in English and Spanish along with Spanish pronunciation guides. (ED)

Provides a sample lesson for students of Spanish, with exercises, vocabulary, and explanation of points of grammar. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

A survey of 59 Mexican American students revealed that more than twice as many used "usted" to parents than "tu." There may be a shift occurring, however, to more prevalent use of the familiar. (CK)

The bibliographer has compiled a list of indexes published in the 19th and 20th centuries, covering reviews of general cultural interest, bulletins of major learned institutions concerning language or literature, and literary, critical and philological journals. Western European and North and South American countries are covered. (CK)

A questionnaire was administered to twenty-five teachers of the El Paso, Texas, area to determine their attitudes toward the Spanish and English spoken in the area. Most viewed the language as a "border slang" not equivalent to correct English or Spanish. (CK)

A detailed, schematic teaching outline is presented for a level 1 Spanish language literacy class that meets twice a week for 6 weeks. Each lesson focuses on the alphabet, reviewing vowels, consonants, and articles, and on numbers and mathematics. The outline, all or in part, is to be incorporated into "Lectores de Hoy," a work now in progress.…

Data was collected from 45-minute conversational interviews of 20 Cubans, who arrived in the United States in 1980, to analyze vocalic processes in Cuban Spanish. Four vocalic processes found in Cuban Spanish (raising and devoicing of unstressed vowels, lengthening of stressed vowels, and diphthongization of stressed mid vowels) were examined.…

The standard treatment of object pronouns in Latin American Spanish assigns a direct-object function to "lo" and "la" and an indirect-object function to "le." This study challenges this descriptive attribution in light of the contradictory and refractory evidence in Spanish morphosyntax. It is suggested that more…

The Foreign Language for International Trade degree program developed by Indiana University of Pennsylvania is described. The curriculum combines elements of a basic business course with elements of a language program. It is a rigorous program with 36 credit hours in both business and language. The program presents problems for language students…

A survey is presented of foreign language (FL) newspapers, magazines, and radio and television stations that broadcast exclusively in foreign languages or that offer foreign language programming. The content of foreign language newspapers and magazines resembles that of English language publications. The majority of the 386 foreign language…

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Third part of a continued article. (SK)

Discusses Ramon Menendez Pidal's contribution to Spanish and general lexicography in his prologue to Samuel Gili Gaya's "Diccionario General." (AM)