This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, empirical and methodological view over the new scenarios and environments for language teaching and learning recently emerged (e.g. blended learning, e-learning, ubiquitous learning, social learning, autonomous learning or lifelong learning), and also over some of the new approaches to language…

Effects of Spanish immersion on fourth, fifth, and sixth grade children's native English vocabulary were studied. Findings support the idea that Spanish immersion has English-language benefits and that positive transfer occurs from Spanish as a foreign language to native English receptive vocabulary. (Author/MKA)

A revised Spanish/English oral-proficiency test battery was administered to 40 Spanish-surnamed pupils equally divided by sex at grade levels 1, 3, 5, and 7. The test battery included parallel Spanish and English versions of: (1) a 12-item vocabulary pretest, (2) a 32-item vocabulary-by-domain test consisting of four sections--home, neighborhood,…

This story and coloring book is one in a series of Puerto Rican folktale books and is designed for use in a bilingual/bicultural education setting. This volume is a Spanish edition of a short story geared toward those students just beginning to read. (AM)

The language community of urban Hispanics in the United States and educational strategies that are appropriate for teaching English as a second language (ESL) in a bilingual/bidialectal language situation are considered. Within the New York City Hispanic community of Puerto Ricans, several varieties of English have been noted: standard English,…

The curriculum guide for the Dade County public schools outlines the content and design of a sequential language arts program. The guide provides structured and unstructured reading experiences for systematically developing Spanish decoding skills, comprehension and interpretation skills, and habits and tastes in reading literary materials. For…

This is the fourth in a series of four reading books written in Spanish and designed for use in elementary bilingual education programs. The reader contains five stories. Four of them concern the adventures of various animals; the last concerns a wedding. Each story is followed by a list of new vocabulary and the reader is illustrated with…

EMPHASIS IS ON CONVERSATION. THE MATERIAL IS GEARED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHILDREN AT THIS AGE LEVEL (FOR EXAMPLE, "SCOUTING,""A TRIP TO SAN FRANCISCO," AND "PIONEERS."). VOCABULARIES SHOULD BE BUILT AROUND ACTIVITIES ENJOYED BY FIFTH GRADERS. MATERIAL PRESENTED IN THE MANUAL IS DESIGNED TO BE STENCILLED OR DITTOED AND…

Materials for the second level of a multilevel Spanish language arts program are provided. The program is designed for elementary school children whose native language is English. Each level of the Spanish as a Second Language curriculum consists of the teacher's manual, teacher's workbook and vocabulary picture book, student workbook, class and…

This is the first in a series of four reading books written in Spanish and designed for use in elementary bilingual education programs. The stories are divided into two main sections, Estudios Sociales (Social Studies) and La Naturaleza (Nature). The five stories in the first section deal with such topics as the home, school, and cleaning. The…

A Spanish/English oral-proficiency test battery was administered to 40 Spanish-surnamed pupils equally divided by sex at grade levels 1, 3, 5, and 7. (Author/NQ)

The Broward County Elementary Foreign Language Program (grades K-5) provides English-speaking students with an understanding of Hispanic cultures, an opportunity to learn the Spanish language with emphasis on oral communication, and a positive attitude toward learning languages. (LB)

A teacher's guide and student and teacher workbooks for the first level of a multi-level instructional program for teaching Spanish as a second language to children whose native language is English are presented. Each level of the complete program contains a teacher's manual, a teacher's workbook and vocabulary picture book, a student's workbook,…

This is the third in a series of four reading books written in Spanish and designed for use in elementary bilingual education programs. The reader contains nine stories, most of which deal with some aspect of nature study, such as plants or insects. Each story is followed by a list of new vocabulary and enrichment exercises and activities in the…

This teacher's guide accompanies a program designed as an introduction to Spanish as a second language in a daily, 4-hour elementary summer school program of 4 weeks in duration. The program is described as an activity-oriented, communication-based elementary foreign language immersion program. Detailed plans are provided for the first three…