This research is an attempt to determine the relative influence of Black English and Puerto Rican Spanish in the speech of Puerto Ricans raised contiguous to the black community in Harlem. The first chapter provides a general introduction to the study of this variety of Puerto Rican English and a description of the sample on which this study is…

Survey of sixth and seventh graders in 47 schools revealed that adolescents who spoke Spanish with their parents were less likely to have had an alcoholic drink relative to adolescents who spoke English and Spanish with their parents. Differences also were found based on language use with friends, country of origin, and sex. (RJM)

This is an evaluation report of a New York City school district educational project funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The program was designed to provide bilingual instruction to pregnant school-age girls who were two or more years below grade level in reading and mathematics. It was also designed for…