This reader contains five traditional stories in St. Lawrence Island Yupik, and is intended for use in advanced levels of reading instruction. The book is part of a series of Siberian Yupik reading materials. (CFM)

This reader contains eight stories in St. Lawrence Island Yupik about visits by St. Lawrence Island people to their relatives and friends in Siberia over a quarter of a century ago. The book, which is intended for use in advanced levels of reading instruction, is part of a series of Siberian Yupik reading materials. (AMH)

A traditional story in St. Lawrence Island Yupik is presented. The book is intended for use in advanced levels of reading instruction and is part of a series of Siberian Yupik reading materials. (AMH)

This illustrated reader is intended for use in a bilingual education setting and is geared towards students on an intermediate level of proficiency in Ahtna Athabascan. A traditional story is presented in Ahtna Athabascan with interlinear English translation and is followed by a free translation in English. (AM)

This illustrated reader is intended for use in a bilingual education setting on the elementary level. It is a children's story in St. Lawrence Island Siberian Yupik. (AM)

Developments in the linguistic and non-linguistic scenes in the Philippines indicate the emergence of a dialect of English that should appropriately be labelled Philippine English. Filipinos paradoxically have emancipated themselves from American English by taking over the code for their own creative uses. Philippine English has become and will…

This newsletter is designed for use by teachers, counselors, and administrators involved in bilingual-bicultural education programs. The first three articles, by R. Garcia, R. Pena, and R. Wiezell, which are in Spanish, review language textbooks, materials for teaching elementary science, and several Spanish dictionaries. R. Garza discusses the…

The school performance of pupils in grades 2-4 of the French immersion program in operation in the Ottawa-Carleton public schools is evaluated in comparison with the performance of those in the regular English program. The results indicate that by the end of grade 2, pupils in the immersion program show the same level of cognitive development as…

Elementary and secondary teachers are recognizing that today's children are products of a visual era who bring visual literacy to their school language learning. Visual resources may be developed and used as a valuable motivational technique. The following programs utilizing this approach are outlined: Dorothy Lopez' development of polaroid…

The purpose of this study was to test the effects of bilingual and monolingual school on the production of Spanish syntactic structures. The main hypothesis to be tested was that there was no significant difference in the development of Spanish syntactic structures between those children schooled bilingually and those children schooled…

This guidebook is intended for use by teachers of Spanish (FLES through college level) and by teachers in Spanish bilingual programs. It lists all of the Spanish-speaking countries and 72 Spanish-language cultural themes, such as "Actualidades" (Current Events), "Carreras y espanol comercial" (Careers and Commercial Spanish), "Deportes" (Sports),…

These two illustrated elementary readers contain the Spanish and English versions of a Puerto Rican folk tale, "Lunaria y Solario," accompanied by a teacher's guide in both languages. They are part of a series of reading materials for elementary-level migrant children. The teacher's guide provides suggestions for activities and outlines…

This illustrated reader is the second in a series of three beginning health books designed for use in the Alaska State-Operated Schools' bilingual education program. Two versions are provided, one in the Inupiat dialect of Shishmaref, Alaska, and the other in English. Both are illustrated with black and white drawings. The reader provides, in the…

An evaluation of one school district's bilingual-bicultural program indicated, overall, that the Spanish-based students are receiving greater benefit than the English-based pupils. This might be remedied if more bilingual instruction were given. The program operates in two elementary schools, grades K-6; the report includes materials stating…

The school performance of pupils in grades 1-3 of the French immersion program in operation in Ottawa public schools is evaluated in comparison with that of pupils in the regular English program. The results indicate that by the end of grade 1 immersion program pupils taught reading in French are found to lag behind their peers in the regular…