This Spanish reader for children in kindergarten and first grade is about a drop of water that comes to life in a trip through the water cycle of evaporation, condensation, and subsequent return to a drier part of the earth's surface environment. The story is suitable for reading aloud or independent reading. The text is entirely in Spanish.…

THE INCREASING NUMBERS OF STUDENTS WISHING TO STUDY PORTUGUESE, WHETHER AT THE HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE LEVEL, ARE OFTEN MOTIVATED BY FACTORS EXTERNAL TO TRADITIONAL INTEREST IN THE MORE COMMONLY TAUGHT LANGUAGES. THE PROSPECTIVE STUDENT OF PORTUGUESE HAS OFTEN SUCCESSFULLY STUDIED FRENCH OR SPANISH AND PERHAPS HAS EVEN HAD FLES TRAINING IN A THIRD…

First grade students from families with common ethnic, social, and economic characteristics were studied to determine the effects of parent participation in the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Program on the attendance and achievement of the children. The experimental group was composed of 160 children from low income, Spanish-speaking families in…

Realization by educators of the educational problems faced by Spanish-speaking children resulted in a 1965-68 Western States Small Schools Project at Pecos, New Mexico, which sought to establish the study of Spanish as an integral part of daily classroom activities in the elementary school. The objectives of the Spanish Program were (1) to…

This booklet is designed to provide the teacher of English as a second language with teaching devices, songs, and games for the elementary school level. These materials have been used and "have proven successful in many teaching situations." Because the cultural context and linguistic content are general rather than based on a specific language,…

Three research projects conducted by three major televised FLES programs attempted to assess the effect of follow-up activities by the classroom teacher. The programs involved in the projects were "Parlons Francais," the University of Illinois Foreign Language Instruction Project (Spanish), and the Denver-Stanford Project on the Context…

This paper presents an overview of research on bilingual children's language and reading development, identifying the problems and biases of past research and indicating future research needs. The paper notes that past research tended to reflect prevailing societal attitudes and an essentially linguistic bias. In recommending future research…

This study provides a theoretical focus for evaluating media communication, a generic model which operationalizes this focus, and a case study which documents how this model was applied in the evaluation of the effectiveness of "Carrascolendas," a bilingual television program for children. The core of the model involves two indexes:…

The paper reviews the literature on the problem of testing Spanish-speaking children with North American Instruments, and suggests some solutions to the problem. In the first section, studies done with Spanish-speaking children are considered; studies of other cultures follow; and a final section probes the issue of test bias. (Author/SBH)

Field-dependent and field-independent cognitive styles of Chicano mothers were examined in relation to: (a) the role that cognitive styles play in determining individual differences in maternal teaching strategies; (b) the role of maternal teaching strategies as mediators of children's development of cognitive style; (c) the emergence of field…

Bilingual/bicultural education can be of benefit to all students, whatever their dominant language. In El Paso County (Texas), 56.9 percent of the population is Spanish surnamed; New York City has over 2 million Spanish surnamed people. These citizens are consumers and contributors of service in both the public and private sectors. Every…

The teacher directed manual suggests lesson plans in the area of consumer education and is designed to provide appropriate basic educational materials for Spanish speaking, educationally disadvantaged students. Originally designed for use in adult basic education classes, each unit contains background material for the teacher, a detailed lesson…

Three hypotheses were tested: (1) there is no significant difference between the proportions of higher level definitions given by the monolingual students and those of the bilingual students given in English; (2) there is no significant difference between the proportions of higher level definitions given by the monolingual students and those of…

This study is addressed to the graduate level needs of prospective elementary school bilingual teachers who did not graduate from bilingual programs at the Bachelor's level, and to the development of a model for training those prospective teachers. An evaluation was performed to determine which curriculum areas of the New Mexico University…

This paper presents a comprehensive, annotated guide to bibliographic materials related to bilingualism, with a particular focus on Spanish-English bilingualism. It is written in Spanish, to meet the needs of the student of language and literature who approaches the study of bilingualism with little prior contact with the research and literature…