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Guerrero, Michael D. – 1994
A study evaluated the overall evaluative validity of the Four Skills Exam, a Spanish language proficiency test designed to ensure that bilingual education teachers in New Mexico can meet Spanish language demands in the bilingual education classroom. The test's construct validity was limited for several reasons. In designing a test capturing…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Construct Validity, Elementary Secondary Education
Oller, D. Kimbrough, Ed.; Eilers, Rebecca E., Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers reports research on the effects of bilingual learning on the ability to speak two languages and the ability to acquire full literacy in both. There are 12 chapters in 4 parts. Part 1, "Background," includes (1) "Assessing the Effects of Bilingualism: A Background" (D. Kimbrough Oller and Barbara Zurer…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education

Batson, Wendy; And Others – Hispania, 1993
Classroom activities and materials for developing Spanish language skills are described. The exercises focus on listening comprehension, speaking, word recognition, vocabulary learning through reading, and grammar skills that prepare students for the National Spanish Examination and other language experiences. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Enrichment Activities
Peace Corps, Santiago (Chile). – 1995
This guide is designed for the Spanish language training of Peace Corps workers in Chile and reflects daily communication needs in that context. The workbook contains a series of sentence completion exercises at the intermediate to advanced level, notes and exercises on metric system conversion, verb/substantive lists, specialized vocabulary lists…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Conversational Language Courses, Daily Living Skills, Foreign Countries
CHP International, Inc., Oak Park, IL. – 1995
This guide, entirely in Spanish, is designed for language training of Peace Corps workers in Paraguay and reflects daily communication needs in that context. It consists of 10 thematic instructional units, each targeting 2 to 7 specific language competencies. A table of contents outlines the units, competencies, and related grammar points and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Clothing, Community Services, Competency Based Education
Gillespie, Junetta – 1981
Written from the perspective that the technology available for language study can be better used, a discussion of television use in second language instruction looks at imaginative uses of the medium for a variety of instructional purposes. The first section identifies opportunities for the use of television, including: as a motivator; in teaching…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Educational Television, English (Second Language)
Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1978
The Spanish language teacher's guide is part of the third level of a series of supplementary materials designed for teaching second grade reading in Spanish. The manual is a detailed guide to the use of the reader and workbook of the same title. It contains an explanatory introduction and an extensive list of objectives, for each of the five to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Course Objectives, Educational Games, Educational Objectives
Zierer, Ernesto – 1971
This paper explains the main concepts of communicative grammar and provides a detailed view of how communicative grammar analyses language at various levels. Language is discussed in terms of communication; the central elements in the analysis are those that carry information. Communicative grammar seeks to describe the process of the linguistic…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computational Linguistics
Zuluaga, Fabio Eliecer Gomez – 1994
The main goal of this practicum was to increase general science achievement and improve acquisition of Spanish as a second language in a group of 21 sixth-grade Spanish immersion students. The students were having some difficulty with Spanish learning due to lack of Spanish science vocabulary, lack of appropriate science materials accommodating…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Grade 6, Grammar, Immersion Programs
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1986
A guide for curriculum development in New York City's Spanish second language programs to be piloted in junior and senior high schools contains six cultural theme units for level 1 and the grammatical structures in Spanish for levels 1-3. The cultural theme units are designed to be used as a core for the acquisition of language patterns,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content
Frey, Herschel J. – 1974
This annotated bibliography of Spanish applied linguistics and teaching methodology is designed to provide teachers and researchers with comprehensive descriptions of primary studies in both areas. The categories covered reflect the interests and concerns of teachers of Spanish, and entries were selected on the basis of usefulness as well as…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Grammar
A Comparison of English Language Acquisition Patterns in English Monolingual and Bilingual Children.

Glad, Diana; And Others – 1979
English monolingual and Spanish/English bilingual children in kindergarten and first grade in 11 states were administered two tests from the EL CIRCO (CIRCUS) battery. The purpose of the study was to determine comparative acquisition of English grammar for kindergarteners and first graders and for bilingual and English monolingual children. Data…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Case (Grammar), Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Hoffer, Bates – 1975
Dialect analysis should follow the procedure for analysis of a new language: collection of a corpus of words, stories, and sentences and identifying structural features of phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. Contrastive analysis between standard English and the native language is used and the ethnic dialect of English is described and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, English (Second Language)
Sonora Univ. (Mexico), Dept. of Letters and Linguistics. – 1994
Papers in these volumes were presented at a Mexican conference on linguistics. Most papers are in Spanish; the English translations of the titles include the following: "Directions in Contemporary Semantics" (L. Lara); "Regular Accentuation in Spanish" (C. Braithwaite); "Syntactic Order in Sonoran" (D. Brown); "Speech Datives or Interest/Not of…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ethnology
Parkinson, Brian, Ed. – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 2001
This collection of papers falls into three categories: stylistics, discourse analysis, and language pedagogy. The papers are: "Feedback on Writing: Attitudes and Uptake" (Kenneth Anderson, Cathy Benson, and Tony Lynch); "An Alternative View of 'Like': Its Grammaticalisation in Conversational American English and Beyond" (Isabelle Buchstaller);…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Comics (Publications), Computer Uses in Education, Discourse Analysis