This qualitative case study examined the interactions between four Mexican parents from immigrant backgrounds and their children during the process of creating two biliteracy family projects that centered on their experiential knowledge. Informed by a theoretical lens of sociocultural linguistics and community cultural wealth, this study examined…

Taking a sociocultural perspective, this qualitative case study aims to contribute, investigate, and understand how young Mexican American emergent bilingual learners engage in early science experiences. Furthermore, the study focuses on how the students manifested their knowledge, understanding, and perceptions about science and its…

This qualitative study examines Mexican-American emerging bilingual children's depictions of their lives in the form of written narratives and drawings as a window into their own understandings and interpretations of social contexts and life experiences. Narratives that include drawings were collected once a month in a first grade classroom during…

During the 1989-90 school year, Descubriendo la Lectura, a Spanish-language adaptation of the English Reading Recovery project was implemented in a large urban school district in Arizona. The program is designed to identify first-grade students at risk of becoming poor readers and to provide a series of intense short-term learning experiences that…

This study is designed to investigate the relationship between the language that Mexican-American parents of lower socioeconomic status speak to their children and the children's performance on standardized tests designed to measure intellectual abilities. (AJ)

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THREE METHODS WERE COMPARED FOR DEVELOPING READING READINESS IN SPANISH-SPEAKING FIRST GRADE CHILDREN. THE METHODS USED WERE (1) ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION WITH AUDIOLINGUAL TECHNIQUES, (2) SPANISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION WITH AUDIOLINGUAL TECHNIQUES, AND (3) LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION USING THE SAME MATERIALS AS METHODS ONE AND TWO,…

The purposes of a study conducted in Texas and Mexico were to examine the language performance of boys and girls in 3 cultures (Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo American), and to determine if girls exceeded boys in verbal performance in each of these cultures. The Van Alstyne Picture Vocabulary Test (an English language instrument translated…

The document is an evaluation of the Bilingual Instructional Project in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades of 4 elementary schools in the Harlandale Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas, during the 1968-69 school term. Evaluation of the 1st grade included a mental ability and readiness test--pretest and posttest. At the 2nd grade level, the…

THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE TO SPANISH-SPEAKING STUDENTS IS A CHALLENGING AND COMPLEX TASK. IN ORDER TO PLAN AN ADEQUATE CURRICULUM, THERE MUST BE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL OBJECTIVES TO BE MET. FOUR FACTORS WILL INFLUENCE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OBJECTIVES--THE STUDENTS, THE TEACHERS, THE SCHOOL, AND THE…

Fifty poverty-level Mexican American bilingual children in first and fourth grade were tested for verbal facility in both English and Spanish to determine which language was dominant at the initial grade level and an advanced grade level. An East Los Angeles almost all of its students lived in the same Federal Housing project, thus ensuring low…

The Region 1 Right-to-Read Project was initiated in seven Texas school districts in 1972-73 and was continued in the 1973-74 school year. All seven districts decided to use a bilingual Spanish-English reading approach beginning at the kindergarten level. In September 1973 the program was expanded to include first grade students who were in the…

Based on a sample of 95 first- and second-grade children with a Spanish language orientation (SPLO), psychometric information is provided for a newly constructed auditory perception test designed for children who are attempting to acquire basic reading, writing, and oral skills in standard American English. (Author/CTM)

The Armijo Bilingual Bicultural Demonstration Center has just completed its second year of operation. The program, which offers bilingual and bicultural instruction in an open classroom for 154 first and second graders, is funded chiefly through Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III funds. Students are taught reading skills, mathematical…

Evaluation of a bilingual-bicultural education program indicates that significant progress was made in enabling all students to function equally well in both Spanish and English, in providing basic coping skills, and in developing the basis for a pluralistic society. The program included 210 kindergarten and first-grade children consisting of…

A study to determine the effects of oral-aural teaching (intensive language instruction) techniques on pupils' gains in reading proficiency involved 1418 pupils. A sample of first graders and a sample of second graders were each subdivided into four groups. Group one was exposed to oral-aural teaching methods in English for the presentation of…