An approach is presented for providing students with communication practice by relating course material to the common purposes of language use. A system for classifying communication activities is outlined in order to insure realistic, varied practice. Examples are provided in Spanish. (SW)

Reports findings of an investigation of the effect of teaching behaviors on student reading achievement in Spanish. (FL)

An adult learner of Spanish presents a diary outlining the process of learning Spanish during her five-week program in South America. (AM)

Describes a needs assessment model which can be used by grass-roots organizations to collect socioeconomic and demographic data in Hispanic and other ethnic-minority communities. (CM)

The report reviews briefly the most salient information relevant to Hispanics in the United States during the years of the 95th Congress (1977 and 1978), and provides information on the congressional activity that occurred relating to those issues. (Author/NQ)

Describes and analyzes results of a questionnaire, addressed to 438 students of Spanish in grades three through college, which sought to determine the reasons behind students' interest in learning a second language. (AM)

"Infinity Factory" is a slick, fast-paced, sophisticated series aimed at teaching mathematics fundamentals with a unique and arresting approach. The 30 minutes of live-action skits, brief filmed documentaries, and animation sequences explore common sense math concepts and present useful information showing math at work in everyday life. (NQ)

Describes a bilingual education program that was field tested during the fall 1974 term. Since that time the program has been further tested and refined. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of this paper is to examine process- and agent-oriented sentences from the point of view of two theories of grammatical description: case grammar after Fillmore and tranformational grammar with modifications introduced by Chomsky. Subject and object functions are reflected in the initial structures of sentence derivation, regardless of…

A significant discovery of generative theory is that the features present in a lexical entry in a sentence's deep structure influence choice and arrangement of words in the surface structure. The systemic and nonsystemic functions of Spanish count and measure entity nouns are elaborated and analyzed. (CHK)

A simulation game for a Spanish classroom provided each team with a fictitious profile of a Spanish-speaking person. Students made decisions for the characters regarding school, career, leisure activities and family. Slides and films on Spanish-Americans were shown. (CHK)

Describes a bilingual approach to language learning where students learn to handle comparative "analogical language" between both languages using a series of picture cards which must have a one-to-one relationship with the oral language. (HOD)

The suit sought to secure for Puerto Rican and other Hispanic public school students with English language difficulties their rights under Federal law and the implementing regulations and guidelines. (Author)

The Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test-Preschool was compared to an author-developed structured task activity in determining the grammatical ability of 20 Spanish-speaking preschoolers. The structured task activity was a better means for obtaining information concerning the preschoolers' productive knowledge of grammatical forms. (CR)

Provides new evidence from Spanish and English self-paced reading experiments on relative clause attachment sites. Suggests that a principle like Late Closure is universally operative in the human parser. Proposes that a second factor is the principle of Predicate Proximity. Discusses the origins and predictions of the theory combining these two…