The study examined the articulation error patterns of 120 Spanish speaking children aged 3 to 5 years, 7 months. The common misarticulation error patterns in the production of consonants by the children acquiring the Spanish language are described. (Author/DB)

Outlines a multimedia method for teaching about Spanish Golden Age Theatre which resulted in marked improvement in students' understanding of written and spoken Spanish. (CB)

Reviews 11 British foreign language syllabi that attempt to incorporate vocational education needs, covering languages offered, testing activities, student attitudes, teaching methods, course organization, and teacher attitudes. (CB)

Analysis of longitudinal data from four Mexican-American children to explore two aspects of the acquisition of Spanish word stress indicates that children approach such learning unbiased toward any particular stress type. Children's attention to phonetic or semantic aspects of normatively unstressed syllables leads them to shift stress to that…

Investigates factors which condition deletion of plural /s/ in Peruvian Spanish. There is more /s/ deletion in plural forms than in monomorphemic forms. But 1,304 examples of plural /s/ from informal interviews with native speakers of Peruvian Spanish show plural marker tends to be retained when ambiguity would otherwise result. (Author/LMO)

Results of an administration of the Language Proficiency Measure indicated that the interrater reliability was adequate, internal-consistency reliability estimates were high, concurrent validity coefficients were adequate, and the classification validity was acceptable. (Author/LMO)

Discusses how current procedures for selecting/constructing equivalent texts may lead to error because of their specific limitations; proposes the utilization of micro-propositional analysis coupled with word-frequency lists and readability formulas for constructing "matching" texts; presents some procedures which researchers working in…

Ninety pupils in grades one through three, half English speaking and half Spanish speaking, were administered informal reading inventories in their respective countries. Analysis of variance was used to determine whether significant differences existed between decoding errors of pupils in both countries. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)

Describes the Dartmouth Intensive Language Model which was originally developed to teach a crash course in French to Peace Corps volunteers. Describes the methodology used to teach this course at Bernard Baruch College and the negative effect of the college's physical environment and of the "commuting" factor on the class. (SED)

Discusses the findings of a questionnaire sent to 20 representative universities in the South Atlantic Modern Language Association to determine the content and utilization of reading lists for graduate students of Spanish. Discusses considerations to be made in preparing or revising the reading lists. (SED)

Three decades later, a former student of Julian Marias is prompted to praise his teaching methods and talents as she respectfully remembers his wisdom and wit, his friendly and enthusiastic attitudes towards his students, and his perception and insights into society's problems--all qualities which have been absorbed and maintained by his students…

Annotates a number of books in Spanish that might be of interest to Hispanic students. (FL)

The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of the Spanish translation of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory with a group of Puerto Rican students on the island and another on the mainlands. It was found to be reliable for both groups. (Author/BW)

Problems encountered in attempting to teach the Spanish verb system can be traced to misconceptions arising from the inadequate or misleading names of many of the tenses. The nature of descriptive terminology is the level at which the problem of nomenclature is treated in this study. (SL)