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Pico, Isabel – 1979
This book is the result of a study that investigated the influence of "machismo" (a set of attitudes, beliefs, and behavior that perpetuates the myth of male superiority) in elementary education. The study included (1) a content analysis of textbooks used in Spanish and social studies classes in public and private schools in Puerto Rico…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Males, Native Language Instruction, Sex Bias
Hendrickson, James M. – 1980
This course was developed at Lansing Community College in order to allow students to study beginning Spanish at their individual learning rate. The materials consist of an orientation packet, student record sheets, quarter-term syllabi, tape lists, and nineteen lesson packets for Elementary Spanish. The materials were designed to accompany…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Grammar, Individualized Instruction, Learning Modules
Duran, Richard P. – 1979
Two hundred nine Puerto Rican students in East Coast colleges, from mixed bilingual backgrounds, were administered four matched pairs of deductive reasoning tests in Spanish and English. Measures of reading comprehension in these two languages were also collected. Results indicated that performance on logical reasoning tests in each language can…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, College Students
Teschner, Richard V. – 1980
An approach to foreign language instruction that emphasizes language acquisition rather than learning will emphasize the development of listening comprehension even at the expense of oral production, since research has shown that the latter does not suffer where the former is fostered. This approach tends to reduce the restrictive workings of the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Elementary Education, FLES, Individualized Instruction
Hagiwara, Michio Peter, Ed. – 1977
This volume consists of the following papers delivered at the Fifth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages: (1) "The Heuristics of Substratum," by Dieter Wanner; (2) "The Auxiliary in Romance," by Frederick B. Agard; (3) "Lusitanian Portuguese," by Wayne J. Redenbarger; (4) "Paradigmatic Evolution of Diphthongs: Marsian Italian and Chicano…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, French, Italian, Language Instruction
Weaver, Gwendolyn, Comp.; And Others – 1978
This library materials vendor list is designed for use by medium-sized public libraries wishing to procure materials by or about the four major ethnic groups in California: American Indian, Asian, Black, and Spanish-speaking. The list is divided into four sections, one for each of the four ethnic groups represented. The second section, containing…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Directories
Chabran, Richard, Comp.; And Others – 1979
Designed to provide improved subject access over other existing subject heading lists for literature related to the Chicano experience, the Thesaurus is an initial attempt to remedy the absence of a baseline vocabulary for use in indexing and retrieving relevant materials from various information systems. Most of the approximately 700 entries are…
Descriptors: English, Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval
GINSBERG, LEON H.; HARRIS, MRS. FRED R. – 1968
IN A COOPERATIVE PROJECT WITH THE PEACE CORPS, THE OKLAHOMANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY (OIO) ORGANIZATION TRAINED A GROUP OF AMERICAN INDIAN YOUNG PEOPLE DURING THE SUMMER OF 1967 FOR SERVICE IN LATIN AMERICA. THE MAJOR HYPOTHESIS UNDER WHICH OIO PLANNED THE TRAINING PROGRAM WAS THAT INDIAN YOUNGSTERS, BECAUSE OF THEIR LACK OF SELF-CONFIDENCE, FELT…
Descriptors: American Indians, Attitudes, Communications, Cultural Activities
Rosen, Carl L.; Ortego, Philip D. – 1969
Problems associated with teaching English language arts to Mexican American pupils are examined. Attention is given to curriculum considerations, methodologies, and innovations for effecting success in language arts development for these children. The four major strategies discussed include: (1) readying the child for the common curriculum, (2)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Curriculum Problems, Educational Strategies, English Curriculum
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Bureau of Intergroup Relations. – 1968
This document discusses the ethnic imbalance and intergroup relations problems in a California school district with a high proportion of Spanish surname pupils and some Negro American Indian, and other nonwhite students. Prepared for the Colton districtBoard of Education, the report presents data on racial and ethnic distribution in the various…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Educational Opportunities, Ethnic Groups, Intergroup Education
Gordon, Jeffrey S. – 1976
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the effects of different pairings of students by language dominance on achievement in mathematics. The effects of self-paced materials written in English, Spanish, and in both languages was also sought. Participants in the study were students in two schools in a bilingual program in Bayamon,…
Descriptors: Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Reidy, Daniel F. – 1975
Described in this paper are the outcomes of an exploratory study concerning the development of a nomenclature about dynamic organizational activities occurring in urban communities of blacks, other non-whites, and white ethnics. Analysis, evaluation prediction, and policy recommendations for future community planning and action are explored. Ohio…
Descriptors: Black Community, Blacks, Community Planning, Community Study
Bass, Bernice Marie – 1975
The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable instrument that could be used by teachers and staff in Colorado to assist in the assessment of oral English language, particularly the syntax and the phonology of first-grade children in bilingual bicultural education (BBE). The study also related the scores of the instrument to seven variables:…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Doctoral Dissertations
Stoker, W.M., Ed.; Splawn, Robert E., Ed. – Studies in Education, 1976
This journal contains articles on the following subjects: parental attitudes toward the elementary school principalship; parents as educators: a comparative study of two Adlerian parent education programs; a tribute to A.S. Neill, founder of Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England; the certain demise of private education; and achievement…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Culture Conflict, Elementary Schools, Mexican Americans
Goodale, Ellen, Comp. – 1974
This paper focuses on the Bilingual Department of the Boston Public Schools and how with the financial and technical support of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, funded in part under Title VII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, it devised effective inservice training programs for bilingual teachers. Two points are of particular…
Descriptors: Administrators, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development
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