This module provides evaluation guidelines for choosing reading materials, and practical training in designing materials for teaching reading in Spanish. Upon completion of the module, participants should be able to (a) list 10 criteria that are used to evaluate books and materials in the teaching of reading in Spanish, and be able to use them in…

Sources and type of data concerning minority groups and women are listed in an effort to assist employers and institutions of higher education. Excerpts and statistics from various sources are presented. Reproduced from best available copy. (MJM)

Historically, the dominant culture in the United States has, consciously or inadvertently, attempted to assimilate minority cultures -- hence, the term "melting pot". Yet despite several centuries of systematic Americanization, there remains a definite cultural mosaic in the United States. In the post-Melting Pot Era, such terms as…

The symposium, convened in 1966 at the University of Arizona (Tucson), served as a sequel to the 1965 "Tucson Survey on the Teaching of Spanish to the Spanish Speaking" and as a prologue to action. November 28-December 1, 1973 a National Bilingual Bicultural Institute was held to: (1) review the rationale, activities, and recommendations…

Attending the Institute on March 21-23, 1974 in Nogales (Arizona) were 300 or more administrators, state department officials, project coordinators, teachers, university professors, citizens, and students from throughout the state. Following the central theme, "Education for the 70's", the institute's goal was to "impact the…

The study reported in this dissertation was conducted with the cooperation of the San Antonio Independent School District as part of the Language Research Project (formerly the San Antonio Language Research Project), Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the University of Texas. (For the author's descriptive abstract of the project, see AL 002…

Listing some of the Chicano values which differ from those of the Anglo and suggesting possible classroom behavioral implications, this pamphlet provides a teacher with a reference that may help in difficult classroom situations. Values discussed are related to social attitudes, class, family, siblings, competition, role of father, role of mother,…

In 1602, Bernardo Jose de Aldrete wrote a book on Spanish linguistics entitled "Del origen de la lengua castellana o romance que hoy se usa en Espana" (The Origin of Castilian Presently Spoken in Spain") in which he explains and defends Castilian against the purist preference for Latin. This article reviews and evaluates Aldrete's linguistic ideas…

Videotapes were used to determine disruptive versus relevant student behavior exhibited (1) with teachers trained under the Oral Language Program (OLP) implemented by the Southwest Cooperative Educational Laboratory and (2) with non-OLP teachers. Five categories of disruptive behaviors--gross motor, noise making, verbalization, orienting, and…

The 1963 Freshman class at the University of New Mexico was studied through June, 1968, for performance patterns in relation to overall performance, high school grade-point average, male-female, Spanish surnames and non-Spanish surnames. In addition to university furnished data, questionnaires were submitted to a stratified random sample of…

Three major areas of needed research in language and reading development for children of Spanish-speaking backgrounds are presented in a general overview. The first area of need is that of normative and descriptive studies of prelearning processes. This includes analyses of language base and home language behavior and is aimed at a more precise…

A bilingual elementary school for Spanish-speaking children in Chicago, Lafayette Center, is described in this paper. The primary concern of the Center has been parent involvement, with home visits to the parents by school community representatives before and after enrollment and an Open House in December. This function was well attended by…

This paperbound edition consists of a series of lessons to be used in an English language and conceptual development program for 4 to 5-year-old Spanish-speaking children. The overall goal of the lessons, designed for use with migrant children, is to provide the child with the language and conceptual skills he needs to benefit from a standard…

The objectives of this project were the instrumental analysis and detailed description of the phonetic features of American English and of the foreign languages most commonly taught in the United States--German, Spanish, and French. Eleven prosodic features, 13 vocalic features, and 16 consonant features of each are compared to English. A…

A general discussion is presented of 2 phases of a study designed to determine the relationship between selection techniques (used by the State of Colorado Civil Service Commission and the Career Service Authority of the city and county of Denver) and on-the-job performance in specified job classifications for personnel classified as Negro,…