On the twentieth anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, it seems appropriate for the Commission on Civil Rights to commemorate the Supreme Court's decision with an examination of the civil rights progress between 1954 and 1974. The first report in the series provided a brief historical background. This second report covers equality of…

Based on selected data from the 1970 census, this report provides a general description of Chicago's Spanish-speaking population's: (1) general population characteristics; (2) age and family characteristics; (3) income; (4) labor force characteristics; (5) education; and (6) housing. Using the Census Bureau's definition of Spanish speaking (all…

This paper describes an experiment in team teaching involving 25 students in a Spanish language class on the high school level. Team teaching was found to be particularly suited to vocabulary presentation, testing, culture teaching, grammar explanations, dramatization of stories and fables, pronunciation drills, and classroom conversation. It was…

This document is a prospectus for a pilot project being developed by Teacher Corps Rural-Migrant, University of Southern California, in cooperation with the Cutler-Orosi Unified School District in Tulare County, California. The project aims to "utilize visual literacy to teach English as a second language and to develop other communication…

The education assistance program is a task force of the Racine Environment Committee (REC), which is a non-profit organization formed in the fall of 1967 for the purpose of studying and seeing that action is taken on community problems which affect the Racine metropolitan area. The education assistance committee reviews applications for assistance…

The purpose of this report is to present an outline of actual occurrences in communication and their social determinants in the small Spanish-English bilingual community of Los Ojos, New Mexico, with some emphasis on difference in occurrences as related to age. These generalizations are linked to past and current educational practices and social…

This survey of 1,814 public and nonpublic senior high schools presents statistical data in 22 tables on: (1) the lengths of sequences that the schools offer in French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Italian; (2) the extent to which students avail themselves of the sequences offered; and (3) the extent to which senior high schools give recognition…

These preliminary materials for teachers of Spanish-speaking or nonstandard English-speaking migrant children are prepared in answer to a need felt by the Michigan Migrant Primary Interdisciplinary Project for additional oral language material on the upper elementary level. The linguistic content of these materials, designed to provide tools for…

This is the first of five volumes of recorded, transcribed conversation of 150 Spanish children from Madrid. Some 25 hours of normal, unrehearsed conversation serve as a linguistic corpus illustrative of vocabulary development at a specific age level. Half-hour recording sessions were made in groups of three, consisting of boys or girls from the…

This is the second of five volumes of recorded, transcribed conversation of 150 Spanish children from Madrid. Some 25 hours of normal, unrehearsed conversation serve as a linguistic corpus illustrative of vocabulary development at a specified age level. Half-hour recording sessions were made in groups of three, consisting of boys or girls from the…

This supplement contains bibliographic information on materials for language instruction in French, Russian, and Spanish and is classified in 12 areas. They include: (1) linguistics, (2) language teaching, (3) bibliographies and source lists, (4) periodicals, (5) reference and practice materials, (6) textbook courses, (7) audiovisual and…

This reference catalogue of selected texts and materials is classified in 12 areas. Entries pertaining to the study of French, German, Russian, and Spanish are listed under: (1) linguistics, (2) language teaching, (3) bibliographies and source lists, (4) periodicals, (5) reference and practice materials, (6) textbook courses, (7) audiovisual and…

This selected, classified bibliography cites publications intended for language teachers at all instructional levels. Major categories primarily include books in the following areas: (1) philosophy of language; (2) general and applied linguistics: French, German, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish, and English as a second language; (3) psychology of…

The problems investigated in the present study are the identification of the most effective type of presentation of dialogues in language instruction--auditory, orthographic, or some combination of the two--and the measurement of the accuracy of pronunciation and the amount of dialogue retained by the student. The controlled experiment, performed…

An intensive summer Spanish course conducted at the University of Wisconsin in 1965 for graduate social science majors studying in the Latin American area studies program is described. After outlining the details of the experimental course based on the "Modern Spanish" package and discussing its special implications for modern language…