Edward T. Hall who has been an anthropologist, a writer, and for over 60 years a participant in the complex cultural life of New Mexico, talks about New Mexico's "cultural mosaic", the schools and teachers, bureaucracies and the courts. (NQ)

Presents two different types of progressive construction in Spanish and Catalan, one referring to a state or event, and the other to the development of an event. The article argues that the first is predicated of a homogenous period of time, whereas the other is predicated of a period of time divided into consecutive phases. (23 references)…

Reviews diffusion and promotion of the Spanish language from the first Spanish colonizers in the Americas to the present. Describes the situation of Spanish within Spain as a form of internal colonialization and reviews language policies. Analyzes present-day institutional efforts at maintaining language co-existence within different autonomous…

Lists a selection of trade books written in Spanish for young readers. Books are categorized under the headings For the Very Young, Biology, Ecology, General Science, Physical Science, and Technology. (YDS)

Investigated the extent to which there is rhetorical variation between the research article abstracts written in English for international journals and those written in Spanish and published in Spanish journals in the area of experimental social sciences. Rhetorical variables found across the two languages may be explained by the different…

Discusses an easily-learned pair of mnemonic devices that have universal applicability for the position of object pronouns in Spanish sentences. (Author/VWL)

Examines how 11 reference sources cover Hispanic Americans and their achievements, describing what publishers of reference titles can do in the future to serve the research community with more accurate, comprehensive tools. Only one source covers all 20 Hispanic American groups. The other sources supplement each other, though there is room for…

Discusses the usefulness to second language learning of an activity in which students assume a pen name and write letters under that name in the language studied in order to motivate their interest in the language and accelerate their mastery of it. (CK)

Examines the use of clitic pronouns by incipient bilingual Spanish-speaking 4- and 5-year-old children with and without language impairments (SLI). Participants included 10 children with specific language impairment and 10 children with typical language development. Children with SLI used clitic pronouns less frequently than their age-matched…

Presents a rapid memory game that allows students of Spanish to distinguish promptly between the uses of the prepositions "por" and "para." Explains the game and various accompanying activities. (AS)

Focuses on the relevance of principles of information organization in adult second language acquisition. Looks at typological features of information structure that allow speakers to organize and shape the flow of information when carrying out complex tasks and pinpoints factors that lead to the selection of linguistic form. The nature of the…

Investigated bilingual 6- to 10-year-olds' reasoning about the stability of human psychological characteristics in relation to the obligatory distinction between the Spanish verb forms "ser" and "estar" and the corresponding English form "to be." Found that children treated "ser" and "to be" as…

The meaning of Hispanic words often varies from country to country. To assist business travelers in Spain and Latin America, a lexicon is provided that details the various office-supply terms used in a variety of Spanish-speaking countries. The lexicon is based on interviews with over 200 Hispanic informants. (JL)

Describes the use of the Contemporary Music Approach to learning Spanish in which classroom experience along with the findings of research on left-brain and right-brain learning are used to help students learn and remember the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and reduce their inhibitions. (six references) (GLR)

Describes the University of Maryland at Baltimore County's one-week foreign language exploratory program for fourth through sixth grade students, and details methods and strategies used to conduct "Spanish Day," where students learned about Spanish language and culture through songs, games, and stories. (CB)