This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include Miguel Siguan, Bruce A. Gaarder, Sandra H. Fradd, Dorothy Waggoner, Jeffery P. Braden, Hortencia Kayser, D. Scott Enright, Barbara R. Sjostrom, Carol Cargill-Power, and Barbara Gomez.
(1987). A Study of Three Mexican American Children Labeled Language-Disordered, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Three bilingual Mexican-American children labeled language disordered were observed at home and school. Linguistic, discourse, and social competencies differed between the two children not judged language disordered by their parents and the one child who was, suggesting that only the latter was truly language disordered. (21 references) Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Case Studies, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills
(1989). Locating Learning: Second Language Gains and Language Use in Family, Peer and Classroom Contexts, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Finds that, among 117 Mexican-American second and fifth graders from Spanish-dominant homes, reading comprehension gains were proportionately much smaller in summer than the school year, while summer and school year gains in auditory vocabulary were similar. Discusses family, peer, and classroom influences on distinct language skills. Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
(1988). Television, Reading and Oral Language Development: The Case of the Hispanic Child, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Finds that, among 168 Mexican and Puerto Rican children in grades two, four, and seven, television viewing was positively related to reading comprehension and vocabulary scores, but the relationships differed by ethnicity, grade, level of English proficiency, and time of day of television viewing. Contains 17 references. Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Hispanic Americans
(1979). Aula/The Classroom: Guidelines for the Evaluation of Instructional Materials for Sexism and Racism, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. This essay emphasizes the impact of instructional materials on the development of the individual's self-esteem. It provides guidelines and checklists for the evaluation of sexism and racism, as well as strategies for increasing awareness in the teaching-learning process to help counteract these biases. Descriptors: Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Materials, Racism
(1978). The Golden Rules of Second Language Acquisition by Young Children, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Two golden rules for teachers of young children are (1) work, speak, and act with complete naturalness, and (2) never try to teach language per se; rather, teach life (joy, sorrow, work, play, differentiation, self-awareness, etc.) by involving the children in situations and activities that are highly significant to them. Descriptors: Children, Guidelines, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
(1987). Foreign Born Children in the United States in the Eighties, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Summarizes information on the numbers of foreign-born children in the United States in 1980 and data on immigrant children 1980-85. Examines census data on the language characteristics, educational attainment, and economic status of recent immigrants from Mexico and 11 other countries. Contains 8 data tables. Descriptors: Asian Americans, Census Figures, Children, Cubans
(1988). Comprehending Premises: Effects of Negations and Training among Anglos and Hispanics, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Examines comprehension of sentences with multiple negations among 71 monolingual Anglo and bilingual Hispanic undergraduate science and engineering majors. Finds that both groups misused rules of logic and natural discourse; similar groups benefited from training to eliminate inappropriate reasoning strategies, but only Anglos retained the benefits six months later. Contains 41 references. Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Bilingual Students, Error Patterns, Hispanic Americans
(1980). Aula/The Classroom: Approaches to Improving the Reading Skill of the Bilingual Student, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Once bilingual students have reached an elementary level of reading competence in their second language; a step-by-step procedure can be followed to improve their reading skills through exercises and techniques which develop reading speed, vocabulary, and comprehension. Descriptors: Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
(1978). Language Dominance and Proficiency Testing: Some General Considerations, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Focusing on the distinction between inferential measures of language proficiency and tests which assess language skills more directly, the article discusses briefly various dimensions relevant to language proficiency testing and some of the special problems involved in the testing of equivalent proficiencies. Descriptors: Language Dominance, Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Language Tests
(1978). AULA/The Classroom: Metodos Utiles Para La Ensenanza del Acento Ortografico Espanol. (AULA/The Classroom: Useful Methods for the Teaching of the Spanish Orthographic Accent.), NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Various methods which can be used to teach the Spanish accent mark are suggested. These methods reinforce the rules of accents given by the Real Academia. Descriptors: Diacritical Marking, Orthographic Symbols, Spanish, Teaching Methods
(1988). Proactive School Organization: Identifying and Meeting Special Population Needs, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Presents a cyclical proactive model of school administration involving data collection, collaborative definition of student needs, use of student-oriented strategies in development of interventions, and outcome evaluation in terms of intrinsic student changes. Discusses drawbacks to the referral model of problem identification and special education placement. Contains 19 references. Descriptors: Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Needs Assessment
(1976). Descripcion y Medida del Bilinguismo a Nivel Colectivo. [Description and Measurement of Bilingualism at the Collective Level], Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education. A presentation of a rigorous method allowing an accurate description of collective bilingualism in any given population, including both the speaker's degree of language command and the patterns of linguistic behavior in each of the languages. [In Spanish] Descriptors: Bilingualism, Componential Analysis, Data Collection, Language Patterns
(1976). La Centralidad del Idioma Espanol Comun. [The Centrality of the Spanish Language], Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education. The factors which underlie discussions of the legitimacy, pedagogy, and politics of the variants of Spanish spoken in the United States are discussed. [In Spanish] Descriptors: Academic Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Language Standardization
(1976). The Bilingual Child's "Right to Read", Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education. Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
(1985). Pro-Act: Six Strategies for Organizing Peer Interaction in Elementary Classrooms, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Outlines six major strategies for facilitating peer interaction in English used by two teachers who were observed and videotaped in a study of a summer English Enrichment program. Describes and illustrates the teachers' instructional planning, room arrangements, organization of learning activities, helping children to feel admirable, consistency, and talk. Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)