One professional translator's experiences in teaching a course on the problems of English/Spanish literary translation, using a number of Spanish and Russian poems and short stories and their different kinds of translations for texts are discussed. The process of analyzing the literature for translation difficulties is outlined, as well as…

Three short articles about foreign language braille are presented for braille transcribers and teachers of the visually handicapped. Because dictionaries of languages other than English rarely show syllable division, the articles provide guidelines to the syllabication of Spanish, French, and German. The guidelines give specific rules concerning…

This annotated bibliography (1933-1982) lists currently available instruments that might be used with Spanish-speaking individuals. The bibliographic information, obtained from the holdings of the Educational Testing Service Test Collection, is not limited to any specific type of test. Thus, measures of achievement, aptitude, and attitude, etc.,…

One in a series developed to help high school students who are literate in their native Spanish (but not in English) to meet graduation requirements, this bilingual glossary deals with world history. Major concepts in world history and definitions of important and commonly used terms appear in Spanish in the first half of the document, and in…

This bilingual earth science handbook is one in a series developed to help high school students who are literate in their native Spanish, but not in English, to meet graduation requirements. The first part of the handbook contains major earth science concepts and a glossary of important and commonly used terms, in Spanish. This is followed by an…

The biological/life sciences are the subject of this bilingual glossary, one of a series developed to help high school students who are literate in Spanish, but not in English, to meet graduate requirements. A Spanish language version of major biological science concepts and of definitions of important and commonly used terms appears first. This…

This bilingual physical sciences handbook is one of a series developed to help high school students who are literate in Spanish, but not in English, to meet graduate requirements. The first half of the document gives, in Spanish, major physical science concepts and a glossary of important and commonly used terms. The second half gives an English…

This is a manual used by volunteers who teach Spanish in elementary schools in Orange County (Florida). The introductory pages of the book explain the reasons for teaching Spanish in the elementary schools of Florida, and provide suggestions on how to begin the program, where to find materials, and how to use the guidebook. There are also a list…

The inquiry illuminated the way in which specific schooling practices enhanced or negated effects by analyzing data on pupils in different placement groups having Spanish as their first language, with little if any English language proficiency at the time of entering school. If pupils were placed inappropriately low, the end-of-program scores…

The foreign language camps, operated by Virginia Tech since 1981, offer high school students a one-week foreign language experience in French, German, or Spanish. The camps bring together native speakers, high school students and teachers, and university students and faculty to experience learning situations similar to those encountered in a…

Lists the various ways superlatives may be formed in Spanish, e.g. by adding certain suffixes, by repetition of the adjective, etc. Also shows the forms and uses of superlatives at various levels of communication. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

A program shown on Spanish television is a linguistic survey of Spain. Spontaneous conversations were filmed and taped in all regions of the country. It is evident that the mass media are spreading a standard form of speech and that regional differences are becoming blurred. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

The problems and advantages of being bilingual are discussed, along with the personality of bilinguals and the different forms of bilingualism. It is concluded that the optimum situation is passive bilingualism, i.e. reading and understanding various languages, accompanied by active monolingualism, i.e. speaking and writing only one language.…

The corpus of the study is presented and discussed, problems of Spanish suffix analysis are presented, and then noun usage--suffixed versus unsuffixed nouns, the gender marker in the corpus, the most frequently used suffixes, and general characteristics and trends of usage-are discussed. (SCC)