The purpose of this dissertation was (1) to determine who holds primary teaching responsibility for bilingual/biculturalism in the public schools; (2) to determine what methods and materials are being used in these programs to teach bilingual students; and (3) to obtain and interpret teacher opinions of the major curricular problems faced in…

For this dissertation, 15 randomly selected Title VII bilingual/bicultural education programs were selected. The target population was the Spanish speaking student. In this study, the following program components were considered: (1) the students, (2) the teachers, (3) the parents, (4) the community-at-large, and (5) the curriculum. It was…

This longitudinal study investigated the facilitative effects of four different program models on both acquisition of English and maintenance of Spanish by native Spanish-speaking kindergarten children. The four program models or treatments were: (1) traditional or regular kindergarten, taught in English with no formal English as Second Language…

This dissertation compares the relative effects of two contrasting approaches to bilingual instruction and of bilingual education as compared to traditional English monolingual education upon the dual language development and use of a group of first and second grade Italian dominant students. The sample of the study consisted of 106 Italian…

The purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate a bilingual program using a method of longitudinal evaluation. A class of students who received instruction in grades K-2 in the Region I Bilingual Reading Project in Texas comprised the experimental group. The control group was composed of 27 older siblings of the experimental group. The control…

This dissertation focuses on the development of a complete English as a Second Language (ESL) program for a bilingual college-level curriculum. It includes the theoretical basis, the linguistic sociological, and self-oriented goals, the personnel and funding needed for the program and the relationship of the program to the surrounding community.…

The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the effects of different pairings of students by language dominance on achievement in mathematics. The effects of self-paced materials written in English, Spanish, and in both languages was also sought. Participants in the study were students in two schools in a bilingual program in Bayamon,…

The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable instrument that could be used by teachers and staff in Colorado to assist in the assessment of oral English language, particularly the syntax and the phonology of first-grade children in bilingual bicultural education (BBE). The study also related the scores of the instrument to seven variables:…

Reported is a study to compare three methods of oral presentation of science activities to fourth grade Spanish-speaking children. The methods of oral presentation used were: (1) an entire English presentation; (2) an entire Spanish presentation; and (3) a bilingual presentation. The investigation was conducted in two elementary schools in a…

This study investigates the effects of the language factor and the cultural content factor of mathematical testing on two different non Anglo ethnic groups: the Chinese and the Chicano. Twenty five word problems, judged to be biased against the Chinese or the Chicano students, were selected from several seventh and eighth grade mathematics…

This study assessed oral language readiness for reading of second-grade students in French and English monolingual and bilingual programs in Canada. The 220 students enrolled in French monolingual, English monolingual, immersion bilingual (90/10) and balanced bilingual (50/50) programs were tested with the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts and the Oral…

This study describes rules of code-switching (choice between languages) in four six-year-old Spanish/English bilinguals in a school setting, to show that bilingualism is a sociolinguistic competency. Data included 306 episodes of situational code-switches and 64 episodes of conversational code-switches. The children consistently applied the…

This thesis presents the results of a field study of code-switching in K-3 level classrooms of an experimental Spanish-English bilingual education project in Los Angeles. The goal of the project, based on a pluralistic model of bilingual education, was the maintenance of Spanish by means of continued language-development in both the students'…

This study compared 5 groups (45 each) of disadvantaged first grade children learning to read 16 basic sight vocabulary words. The subjects were enrolled in 1 of 16 classrooms on three campuses of a school district in Texas located on the southern border between the United States and Mexico. Furthermore, all spoke Spanish as their first language.…

The purposes of this study were: (1) to describe the developmental trends in the control of spoken English grammatical constructions produced by Spanish-speaking Mexican-American schoolchildren learning English in the elementary grades, and (2) on the basis of this description to assess the comparative development of English structures in pupils…