Articles treating various aspects of the teaching of Hispanic culture at the secondary and junior high school levels are intended to improve methodology and facilitate the development of teacher-made instructional materials. An overview of the field relating problems and procedures in several areas is developed. Selections cover: (1) bilinguality, concept formation, and language development; (2) foreign language for preschool children; (3) a cultural framework for teaching Spanish to children; (4) direct classroom teaching of cultural concepts; (5) teaching culture through comic strip; (6) use of the folksong; (7) Latin America studies programs for Spanish-speaking Americans; (8) Spanish dialectology; (9) a North American view of a congress on adult education held in Caracas, Venezuela; (10) the "yanqui" image in Asturias'"banana trilogy"; (11) Argentina as a Latin enigma; (12) ways to develop more positive attitudes toward native speakers of Spanish; (13) psychological theory of language learning; (14) three "levels" of competence for Spanish classes; and (15) testing understanding of the foreign culture. (RL)