Discusses the historical role of the Romance languages and the practical value of Spanish in today's world. (NCR)

The growing political, social and linguistic power of Spanish Americans in the U.S. is discussed. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

This report to the Office of Ibero-American Education concerns the status of Spanish in five areas: 1) A program on Spanish in the Philippines; 2) Spanish in the United States; 3) Cooperation with the Commission on Spanish of UNESCO; 4) A professorship in Bogota, and 5) Spanish scientific terminology. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

Conversation between Spanish Journalist J. Saez-Angulo and Robert Lado, Dean of the School of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (DS)

Address presented at the Second International Congress on the Teaching of Spanish in February 1971 in Madrid, Spain. (DS)

Part 1 of a speech read at the public session of the Philippine Academy of Language held September 8, 1972, in Manila, the Philippines, on the occasion of the writer's election to the academy. (DS)

Discusses the many uses of the honorific title of "Don" in Spanish literature and Spanish colloquial speech. It may be used to joke and express irony, as in the expression "don ladron" (sir thief), and forms part of many idiomatic expressions. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

Refers to the increasing use of English throughout the world. (SK)

Discusses the infrequently used Spanish future subjunctive ending "-re." (NCR)

Shows the importance and spread of Spanish as a world language by surveying the countries in which it is the official language and listing many instances in which Spanish has been chosen as the means of communication throughout history. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

Discusses the important role that language has in our society and compares human communication to animal group communication. Gives specific examples of corruption in the Spanish language today. (NCR)

Conclusion of a two-part article on juvenile literature. (DS)