It has been shown that students in North America can learn both a foreign language and subject matter taught in that language at the same time successfully. The immersion model is first examined for the majority group child, then considered for several target groups. (SCC)

A detailed error analysis was performed on spontaneous and elicited speech samples of Anglo second graders learning Spanish. The results tended to disconfirm the L to the subpower of 1 = L to the subpower of 2 hypothesis that first and second language acquisition follow identical patterns. However, evidence suggests that genuine similarities do…

A detailed description of an intensive training course for teachers of English in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. (PMP)

Paper supported in part by a Peace Corps contract to the Language Research Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (VM)

Manuscript supported, in part, by grants from the Canada Council and the Defense Research Board of Canada to Mr. Tucker. More complete version was prepared by Miss Capco as A Study of the Verbal Behavior of Bilingual Children Using a Word Association Technique", M.A. thesis, Philippine Normal College, Manila, 1969. (VM)

Paper presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, Washington, D.C., February 1972. (DD)

Describes the classroom management of an individualized program in English as a second language currently in operation at Washington Irving Educational Center in Schenectady, New York. Included in the article are three charts: the floorplan of the classroom, a sample progress chart, and a daily record chart. (PMP)

A "reading gap" exists in Israel in teaching of intermediate-level English. Reading aloud, focusing on new words and on literal comprehension questions may conflict with the goal of reading for meaning. A dual approach is proposed and demonstrated to achieve reading for language and for meaning. Sample mini-units are included. (CHK)

Paper presented in March 1971, at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, La. (VM)

Suggests how the high school English-as-a-Second-Language program might utilize the total resources of the school and synthesize its educational approach with the school's ideological mainstream. Specific mention is made as to how the ESL program can work with the music, art, reading, home economics, and physical education disciplines. (Author/FB)

Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, February 26, 1972, in Washington, D.C. (VM)

Discusses in a general way the variations in bilingual education programs and explores the roles program assistants can play. Describes the curriculum developed at Palomar College in San Marcos, California, to prepare assistants in bilingual education. (PMP)

Briefly surveys the history of bilingualism in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), including the program to promote native-tongue literacy and the Navajo Five-Year Programs, and describes present day programs such as the Rough Rock and Rock Point Schools. (Author/FB)

Paper presented at the 1972 TESOL Convention in Washington, D.C. (VM)