This guide is a reference to assist nutrition educators in conducting a nutrition education project for certain target populations. It represents activities undertaken with school, home, and community cooperators in Lowell, Massachusetts, to improve the nutritional knowledge of bilingual (Spanish speaking) children and their families. Formats for…

An extensive list of literature sources on the psychological and mental health literature of the Latino community in the United States is presented in this annotated bibliography. The intent of this work is to provide the mental health practitioner, researcher and student with a bibliography of literature related to the mental health, directly or…

THIS PLAN, COVERING THE FIRST FIVE DAYS OF A BILINGUAL FIRST GRADE CLASS, WAS DESIGNED TO AID BEGINNING TEACHERS OF NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING CHILDREN MEET SOME OF THE SITUATIONS THEY WILL ENCOUNTER. (SPECIAL EMPHASIS IS ON SPANISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN.) THE DAILY SCHEDULE IS PRESENTED AS A GUIDE TO BE ADJUSTED ACCORDING TO NEED. IN ADDITION TO THE…

Transformational grammar is briefly defined in this paper, and some of the key literature on the subject is indicated. Examples of transformational operation on Spanish sentences are used to demonstrate how this approach makes the teaching-learning process easier and more efficient. (SS)

Lake Forest High School in Lake Forest, Illinois, has developed a program for introducing Portuguese in the secondary school. The program is now in its sixth successive, successful year. Instead of being included in the curriculum as a full-time course, Portuguese falls in the category of an "enrichment course." It is abbreviated (the first year…

This dissertation has two major purposes: first, to identify, examine, and analyze those factors within the New York City public school system's employment practices which are believed to contribute to the charges that the system discriminates against minorities in job selection and promotion, by effect if not intent. Secondly, to propose a model…

The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the relationships between self-esteem and general anxiety and test anxiety by sex and by grade level for a matched sample of white and black young adolescent students in a racially integrated school setting. Various tests were administered to the entire student population of the East Aurora,…

This collection of original poems and riddles in Spanish is intended for use in Spanish/English bilingual education in the primary grades, and can be used as a supplement to the Spanish Curricula Development Center core curriculum, Language Arts Strand, Grade One. The materials is intended to reinforce learning skills of decoding, comprehension…

This paper, presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Congress in Amsterdam, describes the emergence of illegal migration as a social phenomenon of world wide significance. Specifically it examines the nature of the social relations that evolve when a large number of an alien population reside legally in a foreign country and present among…

The effect of industrialization on Anglo and Spanish surname populations in 16 Southwestern Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSA's) was examined by (1) classifying cities on the basis of industrialization as the salient feature of urban metropolitan areas, (2) measuring the socioeconomic characteristics of corresponding populations, and…

A three-month Federally sponsored program for Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs in the San Francisco area was conducted in 1975 by Amex Systems to examine successful or exemplary education and training systems for minority entrepreneurs, develop a manual for organizing new training programs, and promote the establishment of additional programs. The…

Studied were some cognitive aspects of the language development of a 2-year-old Puerto Rican boy who had been on the U.S. mainland 1 month. A Neo-Piagetian approach (developed by K. Witz and J. Easley) was used to study: language behavior as being embedded in more complex, unified systems; productivity of different structures and language…

Drawing on the analogy between the linguistic Romanization of Europe and the Hispanization of America, this paper attempts to investigate the validity of the so-called substream theory to account for the development and diversification of the Romance languages. Phonetic peculiarities of Spanish in America are analyzed, and it is concluded that…

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of examiner variables such as language, ethnicity, and sex in the measurement of the self-concept of Spanish-speaking migrant pupils. The sample consisted of 169 Spanish-speaking migrant pupils, aged 10 to 12, in a Migratory Children's 1971 Summer Program. These subjects came from 5…

This teaching module is the first in a cluster which will familiarize participants with the most common methods and materials used in teaching reading in Spanish. Upon completion of this module, participants should be able to (a) describe at least two methods of teaching reading in Spanish, (b) apply the corresponding techniques of each of the…