A re-examination of phonological rules called "reciprocal rules" for Catalan. Their use is disclaimed as being responsible for processes of stop deletion and stop insertion since the rules violate ordering constraints and morpheme structure conditions and confuse phonetics with phonology. (SC)

A semantic inventory, an organized network of observations on the lexical structure of Huichol, is presented. Each entry includes a name form or lemma, its pronunciation if not clear from the lemma form, part of speech, and examples to illustrate its range of inflections. The discussion of semantics begins with a syntactic framework for the…

LESSON PLANS WERE DEVELOPED UNDER A PILOT PROJECT INCORPORATING THE AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH TO LEARNING WITH EMPHASIS ON INCREASING FACILITY IN THE USE OF ORAL ENGLISH. AN ORAL TEST GIVEN AT THE END OF THE 1ST YEAR SHOWED THAT THE MAJORITY OF PUPILS PARTICIPATING LEARNED A BASIC VOCABULARY OF OVER 200 WORDS. GENERAL SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS OF…

DESIGNED FOR SPANISH TEACHERS AT ALL LEVELS, THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED SPANISH REALIA CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN THE UNITED STATES CONTAINS SECTIONS OF PICTURES, SLIDES, FLIMS, MAPS, NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES, TAPES AND PHONOGRAPH RECORDS, AND PINS AND MEDALS. EACH ITEM IS ANNOTATED FOR CONTENT, COST (WHEN APPROPRIATE), NAME AND ADDRESS OF…

The purpose of this dissertation was (1) to determine who holds primary teaching responsibility for bilingual/biculturalism in the public schools; (2) to determine what methods and materials are being used in these programs to teach bilingual students; and (3) to obtain and interpret teacher opinions of the major curricular problems faced in…

TWO NEW TESTS WERE DEVELOPED IN THE INTER-AMERICAN TEST SERIES IN PARALLEL ENGLISH AND SPANISH EDITIONS. A PRESCHOOL TEST WAS ADDED TO THE TESTS OF GENERAL ABILITY AND A LEVEL 1 TEST ADDED TO THE TESTS OF READING. ALSO THE SPANISH EDITIONS OF SOME EARLIER TESTS WERE REVISED AND ADDITIONAL INTERPRETATIVE MATERIALS DEVELOPED. THE AUTHOR BELIEVED…

Reviews and discusses the structure of D.F. Robinson's "Manual for Bilingual Dictionaries" (Sanata Ana, 1969, 201p.). (AM)

Ten Hispanas working at all levels of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are briefly discussed. (NQ)

This annotated list offers a selection of recently published children's books in Spanish. It also includes new books for teachers about working with Spanish-speaking students. A few teaching tips are suggested. (MT)

Bilingual subjects (N=61) completed the three forms of the Depression Adjective Check Lists (DACL), each of which was printed half in Spanish and half in English. No significant effects were found either for language or sex of subject. Findings supported use of DACL Spanish version with Spanish-speaking subjects. (NRB)

This manual, written in Spanish, contains a linguistic study to show that all sciences, whether economic or social, technical or humanistic in nature have a direct impact on our terminology. Starting with general linguistic considerations on technical terms in both English and Spanish, the study advances to semantics used in symbolic language. It…

These magazine-sized booklets, one in English, one in Spanish, are in a cartoon format and designed to be used by people with limited literacy in English or Spanish. They explain the importance of both prenatal care and breastfeeding. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education) (KFT)

Seven English- and seven Spanish-learning two-year-olds were tested for speech skills in a real speech context. Results showed that both groups of children found identification of native contrasts much easier than identification of nonnative contrasts. (Author/CL)