This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include John F. Fanselow, Perry A. Zirkel, William Jassey, Judy Fiedler-Glass, Gerald L. Denning, Mary B. Harris, Elliot Glass, Harry Silverman, Ralph Chavez, and Eileen Ronan.
(1974). The Use of Parallel Testing of Aural Ability As An Indicator of Bilingual Dominance, Psychology in the Schools. Investigates differences in the performance of Spanish-speaking children on alternate forms of the Oral Vocabulary Subtest of the Inter-American Test of General Abilities (Manuel, 1967) in Spanish and English that may be attributed to the factors of practice effect, language level, and chance errors of measurement. Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Stimuli, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
(1973). A Comparison of Bilingual and Monolingual Physical Education Instruction with Elementary School Students, Journal of Educational Research. This study measured differences between two groups being taught in English and Spanish in a physical education class. It was predicted that students instructed bilingually would be superior to those instructed monolingually. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, English
(1974). The Responses of Ninth Grade Spanish-English Bilingual Students to Four Short Stories, Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingue. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, English
(1974). Video Tape in Language Instruction: A Brief Survey and an Annotated Bibliography of Spanish and Bilingual Video Tapes, Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingue. Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Audio Equipment, Bilingual Education, Language Arts
(1973). Foreign Language Learning for Business, Training in Business and Industry. Results so far suggest that courses tied in with language labs, outlines the system of second language course discussed. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Business Education, Business Skills, Intensive Language Courses
(1973). The Renaissance of Indian Education, Inequality in Education. Discusses the practical considerations that face Indian communities as they begin to move toward transforming the rhetoric of "Indian control" into the reality of quality education. Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingual Education, Citizen Participation, Community Control
(1973). Second Language Learning, Daedalus. Language teachers continue to seek means to improve the ease and effectiveness of language learning, through modifications in their ways of teaching. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Theories, Language Instruction, Learning Theories
(1973). A Closer Look at the Bilingual Classroom, Hispania. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Class Activities, English (Second Language)
(1974). Mexican American Bilingualism and English Language Development, Journal of Reading. After surveying research on bilingualism, tentatively concludes that bilingualism per se does not have negative effects on language development but that socioenvironmental factors probably do. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Research, Language Acquisition
(1973). Historical, Procedural and Pedagogical Aspects of Sociolinguistics, Kansas Journal of Sociology. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Influences, Data Analysis, Grammar
(1972). The Administrator Reports: A Macroview of Student Teaching in Norwalk, Conn.–Spanish-French-Latin Bilingual Cultural Studies, American Foreign Language Teacher. Descriptors: Administrators, Bilingual Education, Classical Languages, Cultural Context
(1973). Whatsanewcanadianclass?, Orbit. At St. Claire School in Toronto, there is a new class in which students who have come recently from Italy speak and are taught in Italian; English is one of the other subjects taught and it too is taught with Italian as the language of instruction. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Students, Italian, Language Instruction
(1973). Unidad y diversidad en los estudios espanoles y portugueses (Unity and Diversity in Spanish and Portuguese Studies), Hispania. Presidential address presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Mexico City, Mexico, August 10, 1973. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Language Instruction, Language Teachers
(1972). A National Conference on the Chicanito: Two Possible Answers Emerge, Educational Resources and Techniques. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Conferences, Educational Change
(1986). Commentary: English as a Second Language, Journal of Reading. Relates a personal experience of teaching reading to an illiterate adult from Mexico. Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language)