Provides tabular information on demographic, social, and economic characteristics of people of Spanish background in the United States. Information is based on advance data from the March 1977 Current Population Survey. (DB)

Variations in lexicon, phonology, morphology, and syntax of Spanish as spoken in Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, and Castile have led to a diversity in the types of Spanish taught in Caribbean schools. The Programa Interamericano de Linguistica y Ensenanza de Idiomas is conducting a survey which will provide authoritative standards for Spanish teachers.…

Describes a program to recruit and train foster parents in a Hispanic community. Two child welfare agencies collaborate in running the program and use a bilingual staff. (CM)

Recently, incidents of police abuse against Hispanics have increased so rapidly that the phenomenon has been called an epidemic. Of special concern to Hispanic leaders is the lack of Federal intervention in these police brutality cases. A list of 56 documented cases involving police brutality against Hispanics is included. (Author/NQ)

Investigated was the feasibility of a prerecorded speech threshold procedure in a picture-pointing format administered to 16 Spanish-speaking children (3-6 years old) by non-Spanish-speaking clinicians. (Author/CL)

It is illustrated that Spanish has influenced Sayula Popoluca lexicon, phonology, and grammar. The article focuses on the phonological changes in the language caused by the Spanish influence. (NCR)

Discusses the teaching of interpretation. The importance of delayed interpretation, as opposed to simultaneous interpretation, is stressed, because of the emphasis on semantic meaning. (Text is in Spanish.) (NCR)

This article suggests using both Spanish and English television commercials to stimulate classroom dialogue and language practice. Drills can be contextualized if based on these commercials and the films can stimulate socio-cultural conversations in the target language. (CHK)

This Spanish lesson consists of an essay on the use of "usted" and "tu," followed by a series of exercises including questions on the text, vocabulary, grammar and the use of the subjunctive. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

Spanish is increasingly influenced by English, especially in the creation and usage of new, Anglicized technical vocabulary. This article calls for a Center for Terminology, to classify new terms and their meanings, to organize creation of new terms according to Spanish roots, and to compose a dictionary of terminology. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

A description of the Miami Dade Community College bilingual program which provides occupational training for 2,000 Spanish-speaking students through a staff of 150 full-time and part-time instructors and support personnel. (JT)

In the last 3 years Hispanic leaders have projected that by the year 2000, Latinos will be the largest racial/ethnic group, after the Anglos, in the United States. This article explores the bases for these projections by examining what factors might influence the growth, and what some implications of this growth might be for the country and…

Notes that either consciously or unconsciously blacks had accepted a negative image of Mexico and her people much like that of white Americans and explains why, by 1935, negroes were unable to sympathize with the plight of their Mexican-American brothers. (Author/AM)

The data for the years 1969-1972 clearly support the ethnic succession-decentralization hypothesis. The new ethnic groups in New York City, the blacks, and Hispanics are achieving greater success in penetrating the school bureaucracy in the decentralized than in the centralized districts. (Author)

This article reports on experiences in the bilingual education, psychologically and pedagogically planned, of a child who died of brain cancer at age 5. Conclusions are drawn regarding order and method of language learning. (CHK)