PARTICIPANTS IN THE 1966 NDEA LANGUAGE INSTITUTE HELD AT WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY WERE THOSE SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED AN NDEA INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TRAINING IN THEIR PRINCIPAL LANGUAGE TEACHING FIELD, BUT WHO FROM CHOICE OR NECESSITY HAD BEEN ASSIGNED FRENCH OR SPANISH AS A SECOND TEACHING FIELD. THE REPORT OF THIS…

THE DEGREE OF SUCCESS THAT MIGHT BE EXPECTED FROM THE USE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE RECORDS BY AN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM TEACHER WITH LITTLE OR NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE LANGUAGE BEING TAUGHT WAS INVESTIGATED. TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES WERE OUTLINED IN A TEACHER'S MANUAL WRITTEN ESPECIALLY TO ASSIST THE TEACHER IN GUIDING CLASSES THROUGH THE LESSONS ON THE…

THE BASIC PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE (1) TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AUDIOLINGUAL SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE IN SPOKEN AMERICAN SPANISH COULD ASSIST THE ADULT STUDENT TO LEARN TO CONTROL THE SOUND SYSTEM OF THE LANGUAGE BEING STUDIED AND (2) TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COURSE OUTSIDE OF A…

An administrator's manual and two reading comprehension tests in Spanish and English for use in secondary grades and with adults are presented here. The Spanish reading comprehension test was developed, standardized, and normed in Mexico; the English reading comprehension test was translated from the Spanish test. The tests were designed to be…

This is a quarterly report of a project involving the analysis of the language of four Puerto Rican children living in the Boston area who are learning Spanish as a first language. The children, all male, ranged in age from 17 months to 37 months during the period of study. All had some contact with English. The data were transcriptions of…

THIS DOCUMENT IS A FINAL REPORT AND SUMMARY OF A PROJECT DESIGNED TO DEVELOP GUIDES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PUPILS. THE GUIDES ARE NOW TITLED "TEACHING ENGLISH EARLY," AND COVER THE FIRST TWO LEVELS OF INSTRUCTION. (SEE RELATED DOCUMENTS AL 001 238 AND AL 001 239.) THE MATERIALS PREPARED BY THIS PROJECT ARE…

Following two years of probing into reasons for local failure in teaching Latin-American students, the author began an intensive teacher-training program, with changes in teacher attitude as its first goal. The phases of language theory and methods covered in the training included developing an understanding of the intimate relationship between a…

These tape scripts accompany tapes on Spanish grammatical structures for Level 1. The contents include presentation and practice on articles, adjectives, adverbs, simple negative, regular and irregular verbs, pronouns, and the complimentary infinitive. Each script is prefaced with syllabus number and topic and the vocabulary to be introduced or…

This dissertation investigated the levels of self esteem, general anxiety, and test anxiety, and their inter-relationships among white, black, and Spanish surnamed students in grades nine through twelve. The relationships of sex and grade levels to these variables were also examined. A group of 2,448 students from two public high schools were…

This dissertation compared the self-esteem of low socioeconomic black, Spanish, and white males and females in kindergarten, first, and second grades. The subjects used were 416 primary children from two suburban communities adjoining Chicago to whom the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory was given in a revised form. The schools used in the study…

Problems of technical assistance to special educators from developing nations are discussed, and a program of training Spanish-speaking teachers from the U.S. in Mexico is described. After listing a number of alternatives to these problems, the author concentrates on a program he developed in Jalapa, Mexico where Spanish-speaking teachers from the…

This study sought to ascertain the expectations regarding help for personal problems of Mexican-American people in one community. The population surveyed consisted of people not actively seeking mental health services. A questionnaire was formulated consisting of 18 items pertaining to expectations about help for personal problems. The results…

This is the fourth in a series of four reading books written in Spanish and designed for use in elementary bilingual education programs. The reader contains five stories. Four of them concern the adventures of various animals; the last concerns a wedding. Each story is followed by a list of new vocabulary and the reader is illustrated with…

The present paper reports on an experiment designed to test the semantic analysis of Spanish mood vs. the traditional analysis in terms of government, by testing preferences for the Present Indicative or the Present Subjunctive following expressions of varying certainty. Two separate tests were conducted, in which subjects were given the option of…

This study attempts to provide some general guidelines for the development of preschool bilingual-multicultural (BL-MC) curricula in a number of diverse Spanish-speaking environments and cultural enclaves, including Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Mexican American communities. Significant factors in the development of a BL-MC curriculum are identified…