"Carrascolendas" is a bilingual instructional television program, patterned after "Sesame Street", which is designed to introduce Mexican-American children to the dominant American culture and yet encourage them to retain part of their own cultural identity. The program also seeks to maximize the child's chances of success in…

The Instituto Fenix, a language learning school in Cuernavaca, Mexico, features oral language learning and a creative teaching technique to help language students to learn Spanish both effectively and quickly. (RK)

The author suggests that educators must (1) realistically assess the ways in which language study can and cannot contribute significantly to the student's overall educational experience and devise new methods which consciously stress goals attainable within the available time period, (2) provide more than one kind of introductory course, and (3)…

Selected for discussion in this paper are some investigations which have results relevant to second-language teaching, insofar as they might affect the learners, the teachers, and the materials used. These psychologically oriented studies of bilingual comunities deal with (1) bilingualism and intelligence, (2) language aptitude, (3) motivation,…

This concise report, one of a series, focuses attention on the topic of correlation of work in the foreign language class with drill in the language laboratory. Viewing the attitude of the language teacher as the critical factor in this problem, the author presents fundamental material on: (1) selection of appropriate materials, (2) the use of…

Skills and attitudes needed by language teachers, characteristics of a well-designed curriculum, and other aspects of teaching and learning in foreign language and second language programs are outlined. (SW)

This research compared alternative school programs for French language learning. Student achievement was focused on, and data concerned French language arts (including attitudes), mathematics, English language arts, environmental science, social studies, geography, and history. Research was carried out during the 1973/74 and 74/75 academic years,…

How do the expectations for bilingual educational programs of legislators, educators, parents, students and ethnic leaders match one another? What expectations are implicit in the actual practice of schools, of homes, of evaluators? How does all this fit in with what we understand about the best way for children to learn a language? This paper…

Noting the present state of declining enrollment figures in foreign language education, the future of language instruction is questioned in this address. The author deplores the resultant provincialism resulting from a neoisolationist movement throughout the country in which the English language is seen as the only acceptable medium of cultural…

This is a program evaluation of a language laboratory aide project initiated in two Milwaukee high schools. Some brief remarks on objectives, the schools involved, and project procedures are followed by the evaluation plan. Major attention is directed to the section on results, including pretest and posttest comparisons, a follow-up study, student…

This paper discusses some of the background rationale for bilingual education and raises issues concerning personnel training, with indications as to how these issues have been dealt with in the program at SUNY-Albany. In the preparation of bilingual educators, the relationship between the educator's cultural, linguistic, and ethnic background and…

The role of language instruction in a changing society is scrutinized in this article. Enrollment trends in several subject areas are compared and reasons for the decline in English, mathematics, science, and languages are related to current student attitudes. Instructional objectives of language programs are criticized particularly for their…

The means for ethnic language retention (ELRET) should be built into bilingual education programs in the United States. Currently there are very few programs designed to help a foreign speaker maintain his mother-tongue ability as he learns a new language. Materials designed in this field should take advantage of the concept of "domain…

This report is an evaluation of an exploratory program in foreign languages called "Foreign Language Appreciation" (F.L.A.), which has been implemented in several schools in Baltimore County, Maryland. Questionnaires designed to evaluate the program in general were sent to F.L.A. teachers; questions concentrated on the areas of…

Concerned with the sharp decline of students in French language classes in recent years, the present study examined a set of intra-school factors that might be related to the decline. Altogether 85 French language teachers and 78 principals at elementary and secondary levels in 14 school divisions in Southwestern Manitoba participated in the…