Eight biographical sketches of some Jicarilla Apache and Spanish American people who live and work in Dulce, New Mexico are given. These sketches contain brief descriptions of the lives of Jose Gabriel Abeyta, Cevero Caramillo, Chon LaBrier, Espeedie Garcia Ruiz, Raleigh Tafoya, Norman Tecube, Hubert Velarde, and Henry "Buster" L.…

This study examined the accuracy of teacher-candidates in conducting an informal oral-reading inventory, in English, of a student whose English exhibited Spanish language features. In one test, subjects recorded, analyzed, and scored an inventory; in a second, they analyzed and scored miscues which were already recorded. Subjects had training and…

Shows how comparison and contrast of cultures yields poetry from bilingual elementary students. Provides samples of student poems. (RL)

This article shows what features of Chicano Spanish are seen by typical Latin Americans as being most unlike their own speech. (NCR)

An interview with the president of the three-year-old Hispanic-American Journalists Association of New York. A summary of the aims and activities of the association and of the strides made in securing the rights of the Spanish-speaking population is given. (Text is in Spanish.) (AMH)

A project to improve the educational opportunities of Spanish American students in Colorado is described in this article. (JD)

Concludes that the disruptive experience of political and military conquest was a crucial fact that influenced the Chicano's family history. As Chicanos became a submerged ethnic minority, when previously they had been a dominant culture, traditional values supporting the extended family tended to disappear. (Author/AM)

A commentary on a dictionary of Texas Mexican American Spanish now being compiled by Roberto Galvan and Richard Teschnev. This dictionary will be a valuable tool for translators of Hispanic literature. Topics treated are base and suppletive dictionaries, the kinds of corpus used in the new dictionary, and frequency as an objective yardstick. (AMH)

Presents Mexican American and Latino efforts to establish bilingual/bicultural public television programing. (DB)

Mental ability, language development (English), language development (Spanish), and self-image changes were studied as effects of an early intervention program for preschool children. (Authors/JA)

Offers a description of 5 Southwestern institutions serving American Indian and Chicano students; Tlatelolco Field Study Center, Casa de la Raza, Farmworkers Community School, Colegio Jacinto Trevino and Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University (DQU). (PG)

A principal describes his abortive attempts to battle school board prejudice toward Mexican Americans in a rural California grape growing community. (JF)

Discusses the historical role of the Romance languages and the practical value of Spanish in today's world. (NCR)

The article presented an overview of Hispanic participation rates in specifically defined "welfare" programs. It was noted that data on national participation rates of Hispanics in these welfare programs is somewhat scattered and at times incomplete. (NQ)