A questionnaire was administered to 50 first-grade teachers who reported strategies used in teaching reading to 1,145 Mexican-American, Black, and Anglo children in three school districts in Texas. Seven null hypotheses were tested. It was concluded that (1) reading instruction is delayed with Mexican-American children; (2) on the average, 68% of…

Access to some of the latest research findings and developments in the education of Mexican American children and adults is provided by this bibliography, which is a supplement to the basic bibliography (ED 031 352). Academic achievement, bilingual education, and teaching English as a second language are emphasized. Included are more than 150…

As the number of required courses in schools diminishes, non-college-bound Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, or Cuban-American students frequently fail to see the value of enrolling in Spanish courses. Promotional materials were developed at a public high school with a 40 percent Mexican-American student body. (Author/SW)

A commentary on a dictionary of Texas Mexican American Spanish now being compiled by Roberto Galvan and Richard Teschnev. This dictionary will be a valuable tool for translators of Hispanic literature. Topics treated are base and suppletive dictionaries, the kinds of corpus used in the new dictionary, and frequency as an objective yardstick. (AMH)

Presents Mexican American and Latino efforts to establish bilingual/bicultural public television programing. (DB)

Article presented in Spanish and English versions. (DS)

Background: Mexican American women have the highest leisure-time physical inactivity prevalence of any ethnic minority group. Purpose: This study examined a sample of Mexican American females living near the U.S.-Mexico border to determine whether the variables of age, health status, educational level, marital status, and acculturation…

A study is reported in which 14 bilingually schooled and 16 conventionally schooled Mexican-American children and their parents were subjects of research over a two-year period. The bilingual program students were found to be using Spanish more after several years and continued this pattern over time. (Author/RM)

Evaluation was made of the Wilson School District's oral Spanish and oral English development programs for preschool and first-grade children with limited proficiency in English and/or Spanish. The program consisted of 3 major components: an English Oral Language Program (EOLP) for children using nonstandard English, a Spanish Oral Language…

Bilingualism is defined as the ability of a person to function well in all skills of 2 languages and understand and accept the cultures of both languages, thus being a contributing member of his society. Bilingual teaching means concurrent use of 2 languages as a media of instruction in any or all of the school curriculum except the actual study…

This newsletter, intended to promote the cause of bilingual-bicultural education, contains articles on "Chicano Federation and Bilingual-Bicultural Education,""Have I Got a Math Series for You!,""Puerto Rican Social Studies Perspective," and "Multilingual Assessment Program Builds Better Testing Mousetrap." The first article appears in Spanish and…

An experiment in the teaching of reading in Spanish to second- and third-grade students, conducted by the author at the Ethel Phillips elementary school, utilizes a modified version of Dr. Laubach's "syllabic, analytic-synthetic" method of language instruction. In this approach, vowels are combined in succession with each of the consonants to…

A PILOT STUDY TRACED THE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF SPANISH SPEAKING PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES AND DISCUSSED THEIR PRESENT POSITION IN AMERICAN SOCIETY IN TERMS OF EDUCATION, HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, VOTING, PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS, AND HEALTH. DISCRIMINATION AND THE DEPRIVATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS WERE EMPHASIZED. SOURCES FOR…

The Sesame Street research staff summarizes comments on the fourth season of the program by the Chicano Study Center of the University of California at Los Angeles. Included are reviews of Sesame Street scripts and programs containing Spanish content; sex role observations; examples of modeling behavior; and comments on segments which challenge…