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Community School District 9, Bronx, NY. – 1980
During the 1979-1980 school year, 700 Hispanic students from grades one through nine in seven schools in the Bronx, New York, participated in the Comprehensive Approach to Bilingual Education Program. The program included an instructional component that emphasized the acquisition of English as a Second Language, Spanish and English reading skills,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1980
This is an evaluation of a Title VII bilingual program that was conducted at South Shore High School in Brooklyn, New York, in 1979-1980. The program served Russian, Haitian Creole, and Spanish speaking students in both public and private schools. The evaluation provides a demographic analysis of the school's environment, information on student…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development
Norris, Carol A.; Wheeler, Linda – 1981
The Adult Reading Academy, a federally-funded service of the Phoenix Union High School District, serves native- and foreign-born adult students who are deficient in the basic skills of reading, writing, arithmetic, and oral communication. In 1980/81, the program served 476 students at 17 sites. Approximately 24 percent of the clients served were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 1981
In addition to presenting detailed guidelines for foreign language curriculum development in Georgia public schools, this guide includes illustrations of a variety of classroom approaches to meeting course goals. The overall rationale for the guide is to bring programs and curricula at all levels in line with both societal needs for…
Descriptors: Career Education, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1980
This is an evaluation of a Title VII Bilingual Program conducted at a New York City High School in 1979-80. The report contains information on the program goals and objectives, the school site, and the student characteristics. Aspects of the instructional component discussed include programming, mainstreaming, and program funding.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education, Class Organization, Curriculum Development
Moll, Luis C.; And Others – 1980
This research provides a detailed analysis of the inner workings of a bilingual program implemented in San Diego, California. The children in the study divide their school day between two separate classrooms, one offering instruction in Spanish and the other in English. The same students were videotaped as they participated in reading lessons in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Ethnography
Jelinski, Jack – 1977
An approach to teaching the subjunctive in the foreign language classroom is presented here. Based primarily on the work of the linguist William Bull, the numerous and vague "rules" are reduced to two essential principles that determine subjunctive use. The materials consist of a sixteen-page teaching guide, an outline for student use,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
On July 31, 1978, the U.S. Senate Committee on Human Resources held a hearing in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on the problem of youth unemployment. In particular, the effectiveness of the CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) and YEDPA (Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act) programs concerned the Committee. Following an opening…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Ellis Associates, Inc., College Park, MD. – 1979
A project was conducted to develop three metric education modules for use with bilingual (Spanish and English) students in postsecondary and adult vocational education programs. Developed for the first section of each module, five instructional units cover basic metric concepts: (1) measuring length and finding area, (2) measuring volume, (3)…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agricultural Education, Bilingual Education, Business Education
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Adams, Marianne Lehr, Ed. – 1978
A manual for use in training French and Spanish language examiners at the Foreign Service Institute is presented here. After a discussion of the history of the language proficiency test and of the testing procedure and evaluation techniques, the following topics are covered: (1) language proficiency ratings based on the absolute criterion of the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Interviews, Language Fluency
National Center for Education Statistics (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1978
This bulletin provides information on two educational disadvantages of language-minority persons in the United States based on an analysis of data from the nationwide Survey of Income and Education (SIE), conducted in the spring of 1976 by the Bureau of the Census. Language-minority persons were found to be educationally disadvantaged on two key…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Bilingual Students, Dropout Rate
Mora, Magdalena, Ed.; Del Castillo, Adelaida R., Ed. – 1980
The primary objective of this volume of 22 essays is the documentation and appraisal of Mexican women's participation in the struggle against national oppression, class exploitation and sexism. Part One deals with integration and development, with three articles referring to the Chicana and her role as activist and woman in the Chicano movement.…
Descriptors: Activism, Court Litigation, Demography, Employed Women
Barkin, Florence, Ed.; Brandt, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1980
Papers presented at the Southwest Area Language and Linguistics Workshop (SWALLOW) include both theoretical and practical contributions. First and second language acquisition was studied in terms of its effects on first language, its acquisition in a bilingual classroom, and its assessment. Native American student speeches were examined in terms…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Ethnology
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1967
THIS SELECTIVE, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY IS A LIST OF THE OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE IN THE FIELD OF TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN KINDERGARTEN AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. SECTION A (METHODOLOGY) LISTS BACKGROUND READINGS DEALING WITH THEORY AND APPROACHES, MATERIALS, AND TECHNIQUES. SECTION B (PRE-SCHOOL OR PRIMARY SCHOOL MATERIALS)…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
FELDMAN, DAVID M.; KLINE, WALTER D. – 1966
THE NEED TO PROVIDE COLORADO'S MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHERS WITH A STATE INSERVICE PROGRAM TO HELP THEM RELATE LINGUISTIC THEORIES AND FINDINGS TO CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES RESULTED IN THE PUBLICATION OF THIS STUDY GUIDE FOR SPANISH TEACHERS BY THE COLORADO STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. DESIGNED FOR USE BY INDEPENDENT STUDY GROUPS, THE GUIDE STRESSES AN…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Cultural Context, Inservice Education
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