Describes classes and programs at the Loop College in Chicago, Illinois. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) on November 26, 1971, in Chicago, Illinois. (DS)

The teaching of Spanish in American schools and colleges to native speakers of Spanish has its origin in two main factors: the need for acceptance by the teaching profession of maintenance and development of the Spanish spoken natively in the United States, and the need for cultural determination by the nation's native Spanish speakers. In light…

This guide presents the philosophy, goals, and objectives, as well as the scope and sequence of Spanish language instruction at four levels for the public secondary schools of Hawaii. The emphasis is on producing communicative competence in Spanish. The goals, objectives, and performance expectations are presented as guides from which teachers can…

Performance objectives for the foreign language curriculum in Michigan schools are presented in draft form. Objectives are outlined for stages A (beginning) through D (advanced). The remainder of the volume deals with stage A. It provides a detailed description of the minimum behavioral objectives for basic language skills at the end of the…

In order to generate student interest in the Foreign Language Appreciation program the teacher must provide varied, organized lesson plans. This booklet consists of fourteen sample lesson plans and supplemental material for use in the Spanish classroom, seven for French, and four for Russian. Each plan states the objectives of the lesson, the…

Attention is focused on the 10-year (grades 3-12) Spanish sequence in the Hackensack schools. Program expenses, student test scores, and a subjective evaluation of the project's effectiveness are included. Also discussed are enrollment trends, students who discontinue studying Spanish, the transference value of language skills, and the reasons for…

A third volume of a highly articulated set of language materials defines achievement level 2 in the control of Spanish syntax while providing descriptions and interrelationships of vital syntactic structures and expected student performance. The noun phrase, predicate phrase, verbal aspects, adverbials, relativization, noun modification,…