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Bringas, Juliet G.; Chan, Teresa Y. – 1979
Designed to aid dietitians, nutritionists, and other health professionals to better serve the nutritional needs of Hispanics, this bilingual booklet describes the different cultural eating habits of Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican Americans, with in-depth description of Mexican Americans. Written in Spanish and English, the booklet includes…
Descriptors: Cubans, Definitions, Dietetics, Eating Habits
KRUEGER, JOHN R. – 1961
PART ONE OF THIS COMPREHENSIVE MANUAL OF CHUVASH COMPRISES A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE HISTORY, CUSTOMS, AND SOME IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THE CHUVASH ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS. A MAP AND GAZETTEER OF THE PLACE NAMES OF CHUVASHIA (CHUVASH AUTONOMOUS SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF THE USSR), BASED ON THE MAP IN THE "GREAT SOVIET ENCYCLOPEDIA," NOVEMBER…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Chuvash, Culture, Cyrillic Alphabet
Magner, Thomas F. – Canadian Slavic Studies
Yugoslavia, a country with a population of about 20,000,000, has as official languages Macedonian, Slovenian, and Serbo-Croatian. The latter is the cause of much controversy, for while Croatian and Serbian indisputably have a common linguistic base, the political and economic tensions between the two "nationalities" augment disagreement…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Cyrillic Alphabet, Dialect Studies
Andrade, Magdalena; Sones, Mary – 1975
This publication presents three suggested language arts curriculum units. They represent a cross-section of materials that have been developed to deal with the learning problems of students with special language difficulties. Originally developed for grades 7-12, these units may be adapted for use in adult education or at other grade levels. They…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Capitalization (Alphabetic), Curriculum Guides, Dictionaries
Pike, Kenneth L. – 1972
This book seeks to point out the difficulties which remain in phonetic theory because of a legacy from prephonemic days when phonetics and phonemics were one. Sounds were shown to have been chosen for description because of their use in speech rather than because of their articulatory or acoustic nature; many sounds were ignored because they were…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Articulation (Speech)
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1971
This course is designed to teach basic Russian terminology and structure which will allow the student, with the help of a good dictionary, to translate scientific material. Before taking the course, the student should control the Russian sound system and should be thoroughly familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet. This curriculum guide includes a…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides
Robinson, Byrl Elmer – 1969
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of the initial teaching alphabet (ITA) would have a beneficial effect upon English language learning when used with adult Spanish speaking students. The study consisted of five randomly selected English as a Second Language classes in the Los Angeles City Unified School District divided…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Conventional Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations, English (Second Language)

Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1971
This volume of an advanced Russian course designed by the Defense Language Institute seeks to develop a more comprehensive knowledge of the structural features of Russian and an enlarged vocabulary. The learning accomplished orally in class is reinforced in written exercises at home. Instructional materials concentrate on morphology, syntax, and…
Descriptors: Advanced Programs, Audiolingual Methods, Cartoons, Cyrillic Alphabet
Atkinson, R. C.; And Others – 1970
This study describes a program designed at Stanford University in the computer-assisted instruction (CAI) of reading, which has been used by children in kindergarten through grade three. The program is an adjunct to classroom instruction, stressing the decoding aspect of reading and leaving the communication aspect to the teacher. The report…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Media, Elementary Education
Vancouver Board of School Trustees (British Columbia). – 1971
Presents the results of a questionnaire sent to teachers using the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.), and their principals. Generally favorable effects were reported by both groups, with the great majority of teachers indicating they would choose to continue using i.t.a. (DLG)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 1
Venezky, Richard L.; And Others – 1971
This instructional program, designed to diagnose and overcome deficiencies in prereading skills at the kindergarten and preschool levels, teaches five basic skills which directly relate to the reading process and to reading success: 1) attention to letter order; 2) attention to letter orientation; 3) attention to word detail; 4) sound matching;…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Basic Skills, Diagnostic Tests, Kindergarten Children
Philp, Hugh; Goyen, Judith – 1973
This paper analyzes some of the conditions affecting the introduction of innovations in reading instruction in post-war Britain. The relationship between these innovations and research is explored. Section one presents background information and discusses possible causes for the influx of innovative techniques in reading instruction in the 1950s…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Experience Approach
Academy for Educational Development, Washington, DC. – 2002
This CD-ROM is part of an interactive and dynamic multimedia package of information and games for learning K'iche' and Ixil. This CD-ROM includes six books in electronic format with interactive exercises that support improved bilingual and intercultural education and teacher training, specifically in the languages of K'iche' and Ixil. Books…
Descriptors: Females, Grammar, Guides, Instructional Materials
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1991
Provides fully developed library media activities designed for specific curriculum units. Curriculum areas represented include reading and language arts (proverbs and fables, letters of the alphabet, and biographies); science (the study of Gregor Mendel and genetics, oil resources); and social studies (global awareness). (LRW)
Descriptors: Biographies, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Fables
The Development of Letter and Syllable Effects in Categorization, Reading Aloud, and Picture Naming.

Marmurek, Harvey H. C.; Rinaldo, Richard – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1992
Second and fourth graders and college students categorized one- and two-syllable words. Categorization response times for second graders were related to the number of letters in one-syllable words. Second and fourth graders had longer categorization times than college students for four-letter, two-syllable words. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, College Students, Elementary Education