Examines instructional interaction in kindergarten, third, and fifth grade classrooms chosen for their academic success with Hispanic students. Looks at instructional discourse and language use. Confirms previous findings about the possibility of successful bilingual instruction. (DE)

Responses of 36 bilingual adults, 107 Puerto Ricans, and 247 Puerto Rican adolescents demonstrate the high degree of measurement equivalence between Spanish and English versions of the Psychological Acculturation Scale, developed to assess acculturation from a phenomenological perspective. (SLD)

Eighty bilingual Hispanic college students evaluated their own Spanish and English language skills before and after administration of the Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey, which provided an objective measure of these skills. Self-assessments were more accurate for Spanish than for English. Contains 37 references. (Author/SV)

A HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH SEQUENTIAL PATTERN DRILLS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR TO SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS IS PRESENTED. EACH SECTION CONTAINS TEACHERS' NOTES, STUDENTS' LISTS, AND WORKSHEETS. THE FOUR MAJOR FORM-CLASSES OF WORDS ARE STUDIED--THE NOUN, THE ADJECTIVE, THE VERB, AND THE ADVERB. DRILLS ARE USED TO TEACH WHEN THEY OCCUR, THEIR SIGNAL…

THIS IS AN UP-DATED EDITION OF ARIZONA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S 1939 "INSTRUCTION OF BILINGUAL CHILDREN" PUBLICATION. ITS PURPOSE IS TO PRESENT THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN LINGUISTIC SCIENCE AS THEY RELATE TO TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. AREAS COVERED INCLUDE THE PROBLEMS OF BILINGUAL CHILDREN, IMPORTANCE OF A FRIENDLY…

This paper presents a comprehensive, annotated guide to bibliographic materials related to bilingualism, with a particular focus on Spanish-English bilingualism. It is written in Spanish, to meet the needs of the student of language and literature who approaches the study of bilingualism with little prior contact with the research and literature…

This science-oriented reading readiness text is provided in three versions: English, Spanish and Navajo. It consists of large black-and-white drawings of birds, animals and insects familiar to the southwestern U.S. One picture is provided on each page, with the name of the animal printed in large type beneath the picture. The three booklets are…

Contrastive psycholinguistic analysis of second language acquisition was undertaken with bilingual students taught primarily in French and with bilingual students taught in both English and Spanish. Three types of contrastive comparisons are made on the results of production tests administered to students. (SW)

The development of two children who learned to read Spanish before age two is traced. Both children soon became bilingual in English and Spanish. The process of teaching them to read is described. (CHK)

Describes a study which examined the literacy approach to Spanish for Native Speakers (SNS) by focusing on one SNS class. The focus was on the relationship between the teachers' and the students' perceptions of the uses for Spanish literacy and the kinds of tasks found in textbooks and assignments. (Author/SED)

This article presents a practical approach to assessing Spanish-English bilingualism in Mexican-American children entering school. The general aim of bilingual assessment is discussed. The approach to assessment includes a method of selecting subjects, the use of a sociolinguistic survey, and tests for measuring bilingual communicative competence.…

Article presented in Spanish and English versions. (DS)

Three approaches to Spanish language instruction for bilingual college students are briefly considered. Opportunities for learning to write in Spanish are examined in light of recent work concerning writing modes and writing instruction. Two textbooks reflecting the comprehensive approach to Spanish language development are analyzed in terms of…

This article describes the development of a Spanish-spelling measure designed to assess the progress made by Spanish-English bilingual children from Grade 2 to Grade 5. Different stages of measure development are described, such as the selection of the focus features, the pilot phase of the assessment, and the finalizing of the operational…

This study has been done to gather data as to whether there is improvement in vocabulary development, reading comprehension and reading fluency when a child is reading aloud and he or she has a reading companion as opposed to not having a reading companion. As this literature review indicates there has been a lot of research on the benefits of…