This document consists of the four issues of a newsletter published during 1994. Issues contain current events articles in Spanish and classroom language learning activities based on those articles. The articles are brief, most reproduced from other publications. Topics include celebrity news, the arts, Spanish culture and geography, sports, and…

The purpose of this study, which is based on a survey of 116 Hispanic organizations in the United States, is threefold: (1) to explore the organizational background characteristics that might distinguish linguistically retentive from non-retentive organizations; (2) to determine whether there is any differential/ non-differential interest in…

To understand the Spanish speaker one must be aware of the many facets of Hispanic culture and the various means of communicating that language and that culture. The two main forms of communication, linguistics and paralinguistics, convey the speaker's behavior and identify him as a member of the Hispanic culture. Linguistic patterns in Spanish…

The 5th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture has been hosted by Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (Burdur, Turkey), in cooperation with Çankaya University (Ankara, Turkey) and Süleyman Demirel University (Isparta, Turkey). Our main aim has been to provide a forum for discussion, to facilitate integration in these fields, and to…

This dissertation investigates the acquisition of oblique relative clauses in L2 Spanish by English and Moroccan Arabic speakers in order to understand the role of previous linguistic knowledge and its interaction with Universal Grammar on the one hand, and the relationship between grammatical knowledge and its use in real-time, on the other hand.…

We investigated the aptitudes, attitudes, attributions, and achievement of undergraduates identified as gifted who were taking a beginning Spanish course, and compared these characteristics to undergraduates in the same cohort group who had not been identified as gifted. There were differences in the aptitudes, attitudes, and achievement of…

A study analyzed the opening and closing sequences of 11 dyads of native Spanish-speakers in natural telephone conversations conducted in Spanish. The objective was to determine how closely Hispanic cultural patterns of conduct for telephone conversations follow the sequences outlined in previous research. It is concluded that Spanish…

This report presents a statistical profile of Latino literacy in the United States based on a secondary analysis of the 1976 Survey of Income and Education, the 1979 National Chicano Survey, and the 1980 Census. Overall illiteracy in English for the Hispanic population was 14.7 percent, but the rate varied when the population was broken down by…

The importance of the prosodic features of the phonological component of language in converting underlying grammatical structure into patterns of sound is discussed. Examples are given of data equating prosodic features of English pronunciation with required lexico-syntactic changes in Spanish in order to delineate possible areas of first language…

There exists a need to identify and recognize the Spanish dialect used in the Southwest United States in order to change the tradition of looking at it as inferior to standard Spanish and to English. The history of the Spanish-speaking people in the Southwest and of the changes in their culture brought about by colonialism is connected with the…

Objectives, organization, and teaching strategies for adult Spanish-English bilingual education programs are discussed. It is maintained that these programs exist on a continuum; the position of a particular program on the continuum will be determined by the learning needs of the students vis-a-vis English skills on the one hand and knowledge of…

A HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH SEQUENTIAL PATTERN DRILLS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR TO SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS IS PRESENTED. EACH SECTION CONTAINS TEACHERS' NOTES, STUDENTS' LISTS, AND WORKSHEETS. THE FOUR MAJOR FORM-CLASSES OF WORDS ARE STUDIED--THE NOUN, THE ADJECTIVE, THE VERB, AND THE ADVERB. DRILLS ARE USED TO TEACH WHEN THEY OCCUR, THEIR SIGNAL…

THIS IS AN UP-DATED EDITION OF ARIZONA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S 1939 "INSTRUCTION OF BILINGUAL CHILDREN" PUBLICATION. ITS PURPOSE IS TO PRESENT THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN LINGUISTIC SCIENCE AS THEY RELATE TO TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. AREAS COVERED INCLUDE THE PROBLEMS OF BILINGUAL CHILDREN, IMPORTANCE OF A FRIENDLY…

A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS USED FOR OBTAINING A RATING OF JUNIOR-TEACHERS FROM THEIR PUPILS IN A GRADE SCHOOL WHERE THE CHILDREN WERE OF LATIN-AMERICAN DESCENT AND FROM A LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. THE QUESTIONNAIRE THAT HAD BEEN USED BEFORE WITH MIDDLE-CLASS CHILDREN IN TWO OTHER SCHOOLS CONSISTED OF 40 QUESTIONS REQUIRING "YES" OR…

A questionnaire was administered to 50 first-grade teachers who reported strategies used in teaching reading to 1,145 Mexican-American, Black, and Anglo children in three school districts in Texas. Seven null hypotheses were tested. It was concluded that (1) reading instruction is delayed with Mexican-American children; (2) on the average, 68% of…