This is an evaluation report on a Title I English as a second language program that served Spanish speaking students (grades K-8) in private schools in New York in 1979-1980. Section one of the report provides a description of the program. Data analysis methods and pre- and post-test scores are presented in the second section. The third section…

This Title VII Bilingual Gifted and Talented Program was conducted in a community school district in New York City in 1979-80. The program served Hispanic students in grades K-6. A description of the school and the rationale for the program are presented, and program objectives are discussed. These are grouped in three major areas: (1) the…

The following papers are included: "Bilingual Education in the Eighties: Making a Good Thing Better"; "How Bilingual Multicultural Education Can Save the World"; "Some Personal Reflections on the Bilingual Education Movement and the Challenge Ahead"; "Toward Understanding Cultural Difference in Public…

This document presents sample lesson plans for Level 3, part of a proposed fourth volume in this series of curriculum guides, and a more detailed sampling of Level 4, which will be volume 5 of the series. The samples for Level 3 are two lesson plans for Unit Two, the content of Unit 7, and some lesson plans for that unit. The Level 4 section…

This paper proposes a tentative notational or marking system which attempts to provide more information on the sociolinguistic constraints upon the use of linguistic features than has been the case in other systems. A review of other studies in language variation, particularly those of William Labov, suggests that much can be done toward…

The data in this study are taken from an on-going research project investigating the development of the production of intervocalic consonants in Mexican Spanish. The total project includes both longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of forty children and uses both naturalistic observation and experimental methods. The data discussed here is from…

Intended to facilitate the implementation of the activities suggested in the corresponding teacher's guide, this revised supplement and ditto packet contains visual aids and originals from which ditto masters may be made for duplicating multiple copies. The teacher's guide gives the timetable for when these materials are to be used. The…

Support materials for unit 10 of the bilingual language arts strand developed for grade three include two small pupil books and visuals and ditto masters for use with instructional and assessment activities described in the unit's teacher's guide. The instructional aids for kits 37-40 are designed to help the teacher present reading, language…

Third in a series of materials designed to supplement the teaching of reading in Spanish at the second grade level, this reader is accompanied by a workbook and a teacher's guide of the same title. There are seven stories in Spanish, from six to fourteen pages in length, and illustrated in black and white. The first four stories demonstrate the…

The Puerto Rican legends presented here have been adapted for use in a bilingual education setting. They are presented in the framework of a Puerto Rican child's first visit to the island with his family. The four legends are: (1) "Carabali"; (2) "Guanina"; (3) "El Penon de las Palomas"; and (4) "La Garita del Diablo." The book is illistrated with…

A follow-up study of 104 Spanish-speaking children who attended a bilingual-bicultural preschool program was conducted to investigate the children's relative standing in elementary school and the degree of parent participation in school activities. School achievement level of all available children who had attended the Community Education Center…

A comparative analysis of the findings of three studies involving widely varying ethnic groupings of rural youth was conducted in order to evolve a speculative frame of propositions about religion as a variable attribute of the life situation of rural youth, and to speculate about the possible significance of patterned variability in religious…

This study of a parent education program associated with a medical facility investigated two questions: (1) Was the medical facility a valid site for recruiting and training parents for an educational intervention program to be carried out at home? (2) Would a short term intervention program have an impact on the performance of preschool children…

Developed by the Spanish Curricula Development Center, this ditto packet and supplement to the second unit of the fine arts curriculum written in Spanish for grade one contains visual aids designed to help the teacher carry out activities included in the teacher's guide corresponding to this unit. Kits five through eight, each intended to cover…

The revised supplementary teaching materials and the ditto packet are to be used with the third unit of the bilingual social science program developed for grade one. Designed to help the teacher carry out learning activities, the instructional aids center around the theme of the child and the school, broadening concepts of the classroom and family…