Summarized in this report is an investigation involving the speaking and auditory comprehension skills in Spanish for secondary school students. Two objectives of the study were to organize the Spanish language into basic syntactic structures and to prepare a description of expected learner performance for each of the structures. Proposals, based…

The world is seen as a cultural source from which students may draw materials for discussion in this conversational Spanish course. Performance objectives are prescribed which require reading and discussion of short stories, fables, and legends. Use of movies, filmstrips, and written reports is also suggested. A bibliography of materials is…

The two primary performance objectives of this course in Spanish are to: (1) develop research skills which are directed toward locating useful facts and information about people, and (2) utilize previously learned grammatical concepts and skills to facilitate research and use of the library. Several literary works in Spanish are included in the…

Intended for students seeking to improve basic conversational skills in Spanish, this text provides for practice in following and giving directions orally, reading, and pronouncing "troublesome" words. Emphasis is placed on the development of listening skills, analysis of pseudo-prefixes and capital letters in a given paragraph, recognition of…

This course is intended for third- or fourth-year Spanish students seeking to review the essentials of Spanish grammar and to increase their vocabulary. It is specifically intended for those planning to take the College Board Achievement Test in Spanish. Performance objectives are prescribed for culture study, speaking, reading, and writing…

Fifty-nine performance objectives concerning the art of writing letters are presented in this Spanish instructional guide. Prescribed activities include oral presentation of historical topics, reading of selected letters and discussion and reading of short biographical data, punctuation exercises, review of grammar, and use of synonyms. (RL)

Contents of this Spanish text of instructional materials focus on a city in Spain, a city in South America, and a hypothetical visit to a railroad station. Students learn about the imperfect tense, reflexive pronouns, and several other grammatical concepts. Exercises and readings related to the stories "La Despedida" and "Recuerdos Juveniles" are…

This introductory conversational course in Spanish is intended primarily for use in the classroom. The student is to learn some general differences between Argentina and the United States and how to better describe his friends. The common verbs "tener,""venir,""ir,""dar," and those that change "e" are presented. Additional uses of "ser" and…

This introductory conversational course in Spanish is intended primarily for classroom instruction. The student learns to speak contemporary Spanish through the use of short dialogs which take him from simple school activities to talk about the new student in class. Performance objectives are prescribed for culture study, listening, speaking,…

Seventy activities directed toward the development of speaking and writing skills in Spanish are presented in this text. A wide range of performance objectives includes analysis of various literary genres and audiovisual materials. Televiaion manuscripts, speeches, and newspaper articles serve as source materials in this course. (RL)

This course in Spanish is designed to acquaint the students with the countries of Central and South America and their outstanding historical, cultural, and geographic characteristics. Short stories, pictures, maps, filmstrips, slides, motion pictures, and records are to be used to promote discussions concerning an imaginary trip to these…

Transfer of learning from linguistic analysis of Spanish to actual use of the language is facilitated through the implementation of 45 performance objectives presented in this study. The exercises focus on: (1) sentence types; (2) diphthongs; (3) Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes; (4) orthographic rules; (5) phonemic discrimination; (6) stress…

Intended principally for use with Spanish-speaking students from South and Central America and the Caribbean who have migrated to the United States, this text outlines ways to develop interest in reading good literature. The main literary theme reflected through the literary selections concerns the worldwide problem of maingaining an ecological…

Discussion of student attitudes toward sequential language programs focuses on high dropout levels characterizing current enrollment trends in the U.S. A questionnaire, designed to study student expectations towards linguistic achievement in five areas of instruction (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and customs) was completed by a selected…