This article presents a comparative case study of pupil role socialization in three elementary schools (public, Episcopal, and Catholic) serving a heterogeneous North American inner-city community. (Author)

Central to the bilingual/bicultural debate is whether the United States should continue to serve as a "melting pot" for diverse ethnic groups, or encourage differences in culture, lifestyle, and language. This article focuses on the role that courts and law makers have played in dealing with these apparently antithetical impulses.…

Examines the impact of local governmental structural arrangements (plan of council member election and size of the council) on the representation of blacks and hispanics. Two features of the municipal reform movement, at-large elections and small city councils, appear to adversely affect the equity of the minority groups' representation.…

The effect of bicultural and monocultural school environments on certain aspects of personality development was studied in 47 Anglo and Latino girls (ages 8-12 years). (Author/DLS)

Discussed the pronunciation of the phoneme /s/ in Spanish and all the linguistic variations of it, especially in the dialects that have the sibilant articulation. (NCR)

This lesson plan for a Spanish class includes a vocabulary list, a grammar discussion with questions and a poem followed by analytical questions. (NCR)

This article presents recent representative structural, eclectic, transformational, and semantic analyses of the subjunctive. A different theory is presented that states that there is but a single common rule for the use of the subjunctive and the indicative in all of their occurrences, both in independent and main clauses. (Author/NCR)

The historical changes in the teaching methods of modern languages are discussed, with emphasis on the modern principle that language, before anything, is a means of oral communication. (Text is in Spanish.) (NCR)

Describes the use of the computer program EDIT for textual searches to locate a certain programmed word or word root. In the examples explained here, the vocabulary search is performed on poetry and allows examination of the metaphorical and conceptual poetic atmosphere achieved through word use. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

Written in Spanish, the article reports a study which compared the self concepts and attitudes toward their culture, the American culture, and school of Hispanic students in a maintenance and a transitional bilingual-bicultural program and in a monolingual school. (NQ)

Discusses the rules governing the usage of the indefinite article in Spanish. (HP)

Two pilot studies were done to test the effectiveness of the Lozanov method, which emphasizes a visual and verbal suggestion format of delivery, relaxation, and listening to language instruction while soft music is playing. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319.…

The purpose of this experimental pilot project was to evaluate the Lozanov suggestive-accelerative method of teaching with the conventional way of teaching beginning Spanish at the college level. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. (Author/CFM)

Describes the rationale and design of the Zepeda/Saldate Spanish Language Proficiency Exam developed at the University of Arizona for use in evaluating the language proficiency of applicants for bilingual/bicultural teacher education programs. (JG)

Hispanic great-grandmas and great-granddaughters discuss their attitudes toward mothering and being mothers. These women are country and city women; they are business women, artists, maids, and teachers. (NQ)