Cable represents the only avenue available for Hispanics to gain substantial control over a communications medium. It has the potential to provide Hispanics not only with ownership opportunities, but also with employment, quality programming, and long-term commitments and responsibilities to meet the programming needs of the Hispanics in this…

Written in Spanish, the article briefly discusses the composition of Hispano students in elementary schools. The role of bilingual education programs is discussed. (NQ)

Presents an analysis of Spanish stress based on natural generative theory that places strong constraints on phonological abstractness. This analysis takes Spanish stress to be morphologically determined in relation to the stem of the word. (Author/RM)

This article discusses bilingual education as it relates to the Spanish-surnamed students of the Southwest. (RC)

Three measures were used to check the biadialectal imitative facility of 100 Black, White, and Spanish-speaking Head Start children. (Author/SBH)

A small group approach, involving 30 women, was implemented to meet the educational and emotional needs of a Hispanic prenatal hospital population, which staff characterized as hysterical and hard to manage during labor and delivery. (Author/MH)

Reports on a study identifying the varying beliefs of beginning university foreign language students about language learning, focusing on one component of an ongoing investigation attempting to characterize individual learner beliefs and belief systems by student type. (CB)

Monolingual children were assigned to two groups to examine the role of reinforcement in language acquisition. One group was differentially reinforced for use of foreign vocabulary. The other group was first reinforced nondifferentially for use of either native or foreign language and later differentially reinforced for foreign language use. (PCB)

Spanish modal verbs may express necessity, obligation, probability, and possibility, in either their personal or impersonal modes. Analysis is based on examples of contemporary Madrid speech. Four modals, "poder,""deber (de)," tener que," and "haber que," are placed within a tripartite structure defined by…

A study reveals that lexical borrowing in Spanish, from a variety of languages including Latin, French, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Provencal, and Catalan, accounts for 41 percent of the basic Spanish vocabulary, with variation in source according to historical period. (MSE)

Presents the findings of an experiment conducted to determine the efficacy of the suggestopedia method (learning through suggestion, relaxation, and concentration) in teaching English vocabulary to 90 Spanish-dominant third graders. Reports that suggestopedia was found to be more effective than a control method for teaching vocabulary. (DR)

Discusses the code-switching in English and Spanish of adjectives or nouns inside a noun phrase containing both. Proposes that the device that prevents switched prenominal Spanish adjectives is the same one that prevents the same classes of adjectives from normally appearing in prenominal position in Spanish. (SED)

Investigates the apparent correspondences for infinitival "to," and analyzes the basis for the common error of equating it with "a"--the mistaken identification of an English grammatical complementizer with a Spanish lexical preposition. (SL)

Presents a bibliography of recent noteworthy books in Spanish for children and adolescents, published in Latin American and Spain, which should invite young Spanish-speaking readers into the world of reading. (SL)

Shows that "usted" has two functions: showing lack of solidarity and showing extreme solidarity, with "tu" falling somewhere in between on the continuum. Discusses the increasing use of "tu," especially among younger people, and presents some possible reasons for this. (SED)