This article describes teaching strategies employed in a technical writing course for Latin American students at New Mexico State University. (CFM)

Reviews studies which demonstrate that exposure to children's literature encourages verbal language development and reading competence in particular. (TJ)

Discusses the use of collaborative writing for children who are resistant to schooling--who are delayed developmentally for social, psychological, or biological reasons. Provides examples of collective writing centered around a novel created by a junior high school remedial class. (SKC)

Posing as an avuncular letter writer, the author discusses the problems faced by first-time teachers teaching fourth-grade composition. Proposes exercises to motivate children to write, communication inspiring ways to arrange classroom environment, guided free-writing assignments, and heuristics prompts for writing a fairy tale. (JG)

Describes how a teacher used planned observations of classroom interactions to lead to role playing, class discussion, and changes in seating arrangements. The strategies resulted in marked improvements in classroom interactions and in academic work. (SKC)

The English composing processes and products of a group of Spanish researchers at the University of Cordoba, Spain, were studied. The group (1) has a good grasp of the information structure of the English scientific article; (2) rarely undertakes structural revision; and (3) is primarily concerned with precise expression of their thoughts.…

California's problems of educational and occupational underachievement for Hispanics, a large and growing proportion of the state's population, are examined in light of the state's efforts and concerns in providing equal education, lowering the language barrier, and encouraging academic persistence. (MSE)

Presents a categorization system that allows potential microcomputer users to make more reasoned, conscious choices to ensure that a range of software types and activities are available for their instructional programs. (SRT)

To encourage more active participation of language minority parents, Oakland Unified School District (California) initiated a parent leadership institute called OPTIMUM. This project helps parents establish cooperative school relationships, understand school organization, upgrade their own education while helping their children, and capitalize on…

Discusses the types of problems that arise when text is presented in electronic form: (1) surface design, which involves typography, layout, graphics and illustrations, and the quality of language; and (2) interface design, which is manifested on the levels of immediate surface of the text, internal structure, and external structure. (SKC)

Describes how community resources for French have been identified and utilized in Louisville, Kentucky, over a 10-year period. Those resources include the university, public libraries, art museums, planetariums, and local theatre. Organizations such as the Alliance Francaise, Amicale Francaise, and historical societies have provided additional…

Indicates that segmentation significantly aided the comprehension of narrative and expository materials for hearing impaired students who read at a second-grade level. (NKA)

The two chapters translated here from the book "Public Education in Developed Socialist Society" discuss (1) the teaching of the Russian language in the republic of Kirgizia (USSR) and (2) the role that education must play in incorporating non-Russian nationalities such as the Kirgiz people into a common, Soviet national culture. (RM)

Investigation of the extent to which various factors were associated with observed developmental gains in developmentally-delayed young children (N=83) revealed that potential predictors of overall child progress included test score derivatives, number of assessments and home visits, mother's age, child's age at initial testing, and medical risk…

Describes procedures and equipment needed to develop and organize a collection of 35 millimeter slides useful in the teaching of Latin American language and area studies to students of Spanish. (CB)