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Thompson, R.W. – 1975
An international conference on creole languages and educational development was held at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, from July 24-28, 1972. It was attended by scholars from Africa, Australia, Hawaii, the Caribbean region, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France. The papers presented were descriptions of a…
Descriptors: African Languages, Black Dialects, Conference Reports, Creoles
Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1977
This publication presents two suggested Mexican American studies curriculum units. In total 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 through 12, these units may be adapted for use in adult education or at…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Education, Curriculum, English
Ludanyi, R. P.; Shore, Marietta Saravia – 1971
This content analysis schedule for the "Programa en Dos Lenguas" of Fort Worth, Texas, presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is provided on staff selection and the…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Content Analysis
Mackelduff, Eleanor; And Others – 1972
This content analysis schedule for the Brentwood Bilingual Education Project of Brentwood, California, presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is provided on staff selection and the…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Content Analysis
Hess, Richard T.; Shore, Marietta Saravia – 1971
This content analysis schedule for HABLA-Helping Advance Bilingual Learning in Abernathy, Texas, presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is provided on staff selection and the…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Content Analysis
Zajic, Vlad; Shore, Marietta Saravia – 1972
This content analysis schedule for the Colorado City Center to Aid Bilingual Education presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is provided on staff selection and the linguistic…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
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Reid, Joy – Journal of Second Language Writing, 1992
In a contrastive rhetoric study of nonnative English speakers, 768 essays written in English by native speakers of Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, and English were examined using the Writer's Workbench program to determine whether distinctive, quantifiable differences in the use of 4 cohesion devices existed among the 4 language backgrounds. (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, Cohesion (Written Composition), Computer Software
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Stockmal, Verna; And Others – Language Sciences, 1994
Examined preschool and primary school students' ability to recognize differences between spoken samples of languages foreign to them. Results found that, although both groups performed as well as adults when the languages within a pair differed, preschoolers performed significantly worse than primary school and college students when the speakers…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Arabic, Auditory Perception, Chinese
Arlington County Public Schools, VA. – 1997
The rubrics are designed for productive use (speaking and writing) of English and Spanish in two-way bilingual immersion programs. The rubrics were developed by classroom teachers working in elementary school Spanish partial immersion programs, in consultation with a special education teacher, reading specialist, middle school partial immersion…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English, Evaluation Criteria
Bowman, Harry L.; And Others – 1991
Several tests from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) have been used or are candidates for use by the Tennessee State Department of Education as initial licensure endorsement area tests. Memphis State University conducted a study in 1991 to recommend minimum qualifying scores for endorsement area applicants who would take the applicable tests.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Cutting Scores, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Heitzman, Shirley M. – 1994
This thesis reports on a study of the use of first and second languages among students of a Spanish immersion program. Eight fifth- and sixth-graders with varying levels of Spanish proficiency participated in the study. Data were collected through student verbal reports, questionnaire-based interviews, classroom observations, and background…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes
Kamwangamalu, Nkonko M. – 1986
A review of recent studies addressed the functional uses of code mixing across cultures. Expressions of code mixing (CM) are not random; in fact, a number of functions of code mixing can easily be delineated, for example, the concept of "modernization.""Modernization" is viewed with respect to how bilingual code mixers perceive…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations
Wilkinson, Cheryl Yelich; Holtzman, Wayne H., Jr. – 1988
The relationship between the relative language proficiencies of bilingual children and their scores on tests administered in one or both languages was studied in students referred to special education because of suspected learning disabilities. Bilingual Hispanic students (25 males and 15 females) in grades 2 through 4 from an urban school…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Diagnostic Tests
Baecher, Richard E. – 1989
A study of a two-way bilingual program in the Port Chester, NY Public Schools examined the relationship between classroom environment, and the language proficiency levels and second language learning outcomes of bilingual and monolingual pupils participating in the program. Pupils were second- through fifth-graders, including…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism
Gumperz, John J.; Hernandez, Edward – 1969
This paper attempts to elucidate the relationship between linguistic form, interactional strategies and social meaning on the basis of a detailed study of a natural conversation. The investigation is based on a conversation recorded in an institution for Mexican immigrants by a linguist, a native American of Mexican ancestry, and program advisor…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences
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