Data for this study comes from the 1971 Current Population survey made in March 1972 by the Bureau of the Census. Findings indicate that there has been little change in the relative educational achievement of the major European ethnic groups during the last fifty years. Russians continue to maintain the large lead they has after one generation in…

THIS WAS A COMPILATION OF ABSTRACTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES WHICH WERE EITHER TOTALLY OR PARTIALLY PROGRAMED. THESE COURSES HAD ENGLISH EITHER AS THE TARGET OR AS THE STUDENT LANGUAGE. IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMS THAT WERE AVAILABLE, INFORMATION ABOUT CERTAIN PROGRAMS WHICH MIGHT LATER BE AVAILABLE WAS ALSO INCLUDED. THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF…

Analysis of the distributional properties of non-syllabic vowels within word boundaries in Italian demonstrates: the role of phonological constraints on the distribution of non-syllabic words; the syllabification possibilities within each type of sequence by setting up a structural model; and the phonemic occurrences in vowel sequences collected…

Discusses the social and linguistic problems of children living in Sweden who have at least one Italian immigrant parent. (CFM)

A series of short articles are presented featuring aspects of the American Bicentennial and stressing classroom activities and projects suitable for foreign language students and teachers. (Author/CLK)

Previous theory concerning the variable behavior verbs in unaccusative/unergative alternation in Dutch, Hebrew, and Italian, which concludes that the unergative/unaccusative distinction is not syntactic but aspectual/semantic, is challenged. Discrepancies and inconsistencies are found in the grammatical functions of aspectual functional…

This collection of papers tells the story of how languages other than English have contributed to making New York City a culturally vibrant and linguistically diverse city. Part 1, "Introduction to the Multilingual Apple," features "New York's Multilingualism: World Languages and Their Role in a U.S. City" (Ofelia Garcia). Part…

This report is a quantitatively-based but ultimately purely descriptive study of foreign language modules designed to teach Irish students French, German, Italian, or Spanish in preparation for study, travel, and/or work experience abroad in order to enhance their academic qualifications, vocational prospects, and potential for future mobility. It…

The ability of children between the ages of two years and four years, eight months, to produce locative pre- or postpositions was investigated in English, Italian, Serbocroatian, and Turkish to discover universals of conceptual and communicative development. (Author/AM)

This study documents the instances of code-switching and interference in the speech of a bilingual child living in Rome, Italy, with his American mother and Italian father. (CFM)

Investigates the reintroduction of referents in the "Frog Stories" told by Italian children, aged 4-10 (n=100). The study confirms that elementary school children are more competent than preschoolers in integrating the semantic content of the current utterance into the context generated by previous discourse.(Author/JL)

Reports the results of an analysis of conversations among bilingual adults designed to determine the nature of code switching. Categories for the analysis are proposed, syntactic constraints on code switching are discussed, and code switching as a conversational strategy is considered. (24 references) (CFM)

Provides a number of reading techniques and activities to demonstrate the feasibility of using real foreign language texts at the earliest stages of a beginning course. Examples in Dutch, Italian, Greek, Russian, Somali, and Japanese show how real texts in any language can be presented to beginners. (Author/LMO)

Presents the results of a two-year study on the integration of Internet resources as a primary instructional tool in the teaching of Italian-language classes at the University of Utah. All students studying Italian belonged to a virtual community of Italian speakers who communicated daily on various channels and mailing lists. (Author/JL)

Presents ideas for a special unit about opera that can be used in high school or college Italian courses. Offers a rationale for using opera, discusses opera in terms of multiple intelligences, explains the integration of an opera unit into regular curriculum, and describes how to develop an opera unit and what concepts to teach. (SM)