A curriculum guide was prepared for the teaching of standard spoken English in the Los Angeles junior high schools. This guide focuses specifically on the language handicaps of Mexican-American students. The lessons were designed for use with accompanying tapes and filmstrips. (See also UD 007702 for parallel program to help Negro students). (NH)

This curriculum guide is designed for use in the first part of a 2-year audiolingual language program by French, Spanish, German, and Russian teachers, department supervisors and outside evaluators. The primary objective of the Language Usage course is to enable the learner to make his basic needs known to native speakers of the target language.…