PAST EFFORTS TO USE PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES HAVE PRODUCED VARYING RESULTS. TELEVISION, AS A POSSIBLE SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MACHINE, HAS BEEN NEGLECTED IN THESE EFFORTS, EVEN THOUGH IT OFFERS UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES FOR BOTH THE PROGRAMER AND THE STUDENT. CRITICS OF TV SAY THAT PROGRAMING IS DIFFICULT AND EXPENSIVE, THOUGH THIS WAS…

THE INSTITUTE OFFERED TEACHERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THEIR LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES AND TEACHING SKILLS, AND TO EXAMINE, USE, AND EVALUATE NEW INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. THE CURRICULUM INCLUDED COURSES IN METHODS, THEORY OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING, AND CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS. THERE WERE ALSO WORKSHOPS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY TEACHERS OF FRENCH…

As contact with the American Indian people increased, Indian words, expressions, and terms filtered into the English language. On the other hand, the Indians also borrowed words from those people who came to the New World. The Jicarillas, because of their early contact with the Spanish culture and civilization, tended to borrow more words from the…

In order to compare methods of instructing Spanish-speaking children in oral English, 11 children were randomly assigned to the control group--instruction conducted in English using the Peabody Development Kit (PDK)--while 12 children were assigned to the experimental group--bilingual instruction using the PDK. At the outset, all children were…

New Mexico's Hispanos have long participated actively in every facet of state politics--party work, candidacy, office holding, and voting. Yet, they have not shared the political rewards commensurate with political importance in state politics. The 1974 election of Jerry Apodaca as New Mexico's twenty-third Governor marked only the third time, and…

This bibliography is part of a doctoral thesis entitled "Individualized Instruction: Its Effects upon Achievement and Interest in Beginning College Spanish," an evaluation of Purdue University's Paced Spanish program. The bibliography cites more than 140 books and journal articles on the theories and goals of foreign language teaching…

"Options in Education" is a radio program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript of the show contains discussions of the guaranteed-student-loan investigation, child abuse, the Experimental and Bilingual Institute in Spanish Harlem, and learning how to tune a piano. Participants in the program include John…

Relations among short-term auditory memory, short-term visual memory, vocabulary knowledge, and intra-and intermodal matching of trigrams were examined with first graders. Multiple Rs were significant for 3 of 4 matching conditions. Only bilingualism accounted for significant variance in visual-auditory task performance or reading achievement.…

Proposes a new theory of morphological acquisition in second language learning, based on the theory of contrastive analysis and on the notion of the "psychomorpheme." (AM)

The purpose of this article is to focus attention on the need to teach language students not only what to say, but how to say it and when. A theoretical discussion provides linguistic background and analysis of data and a sample lesson to illustrate how sociolinguistic theory can be applied to the development of teaching materials. (Author/NCR)

This study was designed as a pilot effort to generate hypotheses for future investigations of continuities and discontinuities in socialization role perceptions of Mexican American families and their schools. (Author/NCR)

Scores on a 30 item Piagetian test were used to predict: (1) Subject's surname (Spanish vs. non-Spanish); (2) Subject's language (Spanish spoken at home or not spoken at home); (3) Subject's letter grade in science, and (4) Subjects score on a science test. Anglo-American subjects were found to achieve significantly higher than did…

Spanish and English readability formulas were applied to sample passages from learning materials and textbooks used in bilingual classrooms in order to ascertain their analytic and predictive capabilities. Two main factors, word difficulty and sentence difficulty, accounted for most of the total variance in readability research using factor…

Describes a commercial Spanish language program for postgraduate students of business administration that attempts to fulfill the immediate professional needs of all students. The content of intermediate and advanced courses is discussed, and a list of textbooks for Spanish commercial correspondence is included. (TR)

Analyzes changes that have occurred in language and culture teaching in Spain, Italy, and France in each country's specific context and discusses the scientific and pedagogical implications of each country's early bilingual education developments. (Author/CB)