Evans, G. Edward; Clark, Jeffrey (1980). North American Indian Language Materials, 1890-1965: An Annotated Bibliography of Monographic Works. American Indian Bibliographic Series No. 3. The 187 monographs cited in this annotated bibliography on North American Indian language materials cover the period 1890-1965, updating the 9 linguistic bibliographies compiled by James C. Pilling for the U.S. Bureau of (American) Ethnology. Filling the gap between Pilling's works (variously published between 1887 and 1894), this bibliography is designed to be of use in Native American education programs. A detailed introduction describes the scope of the bibliography in terms of: subject inclusions and exclusions; bibliographic form inclusions and exclusions; time period inclusions and exclusions; sources consulted; and entry and annotation procedures. Each work is listed alphabetically by author or title under the language it treats exclusively or principally; however, cross references are also used. The authority for language and dialect designations is C.F. and F. M. Voegelin's "Index to the World's Languages" (1973). All entries include content and academic level designations. An index to the bibliography is also included. Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Languages, American Indian Literature, American Indians

Brown, Mark E.; Zirkel, Perry A. (1977). Emerging Instrumentation for Assessing Language Dominance. Occasional Papers on Linguistics, No. 1. This paper offers a two-step review to be used in designing dominance assessment plans and in determining appropriate instrumentation. The first step provides a classification system of dominance instruments according to testing specificity and strategy. The second step suggests criteria by which such instruments can be evaluated and selected. Selected dominance assessment instruments are categorized in a three-way descriptive matrix. The global/specific dimension distinguishes instruments which tend toward generic screening of gross language behavior from those which tend toward a refined classification of specific language indicators. Within the global and specific modalities, oral and aural performance subclasses are designated. The third dimension consists of four major strategies: rating, home interview, indirect, and parallel instruments. Specific examples of instruments are given to clarify how the classification matrix operates. Criteria for evaluating and selecting tests include examinee factors relating to developmental and cultural appropriateness, administrative and logistic factors, and psychometric considerations. A sample evaluation of Burt's Bilingual Syntax Measure is provided.   [More]  Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages)

Texas Education Agency, Austin. Dept. of Occupational Education and Technology. (1980). Consumer Education for Families with Limited Incomes. Revised. Designed as an aid for those teaching disadvantaged adults, this guide for consumer education for families with limited incomes consists of an overview for preparing teachers to teach consumer education to disadvantaged adults as well as English and Spanish instructional materials in 10 areas of consumer education. In the overview of teaching disadvantaged adults, the following topics are covered: characteristics and limitations of the poor, teaching bilingual adults, characteristics affecting learning, program planning, procedural considerations, teaching methods successful with disadvantaged adults, guidelines for person-to-person instruction, problem areas, evaluation techniques, amd making and using visual aids and handouts. Provided next are 10 units of instructional materials (presented first in English and then in Spanish) in various areas of consumer economics, including decision making, planning, buying, banking, borrowing, saving, insuring, sharing, earning, and protecting. Intended for use with groups having fourth to sixth grade education levels, each lesson contains behavioral objectives, vocabulary words, suggestions for content and learning experiences, suggestions for application of materials, and key ideas. Following each lesson are directions for developing materials, suggestions for simulating activities, and references to suggested visuals and teaching-learning materials. Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Banking, Behavioral Objectives, Bilingual Education

de los Santos, Alfredo G., Jr. (1980). Hispanics and Community Colleges. Topical Paper No. 18. Despite the community college's historical commitment to the availability of comprehensive education for all citizens, Hispanics have yet to receive a fair share of programs and services. General demographic data, as well as regional and national longitudinal studies, reveal that Hispanic participation and success in all levels of the educational process are not proportional to the ratio of Hispanics in the total population. In addition, the number of Hispanic professionals in higher education has never come close to being proportional to the number of Hispanics in the total population or to the number of Hispanic students. Even in community colleges, which have traditionally enrolled the majority of Hispanic students, the proportion of Hispanics who graduate is significantly less than that of Whites or Blacks. To ameliorate this situation, community colleges should rely less upon traditional English-language instruction and provide more bilingual programs. These programs would insure a much needed boost in enrollment, and, at the same time, help the colleges meet the promise of equal educational opportunity. In addition to providing a brief history of the community colleges since 1901 and a discussion of the philosophical bases, functions, and purposes of the community college, the report contains numerous data tables presenting demographic data about Hispanics and other ethnic and racial groups in the United States.   [More]  Descriptors: Access to Education, Age, Associate Degrees, Bilingual Education

Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. (1979). Educational Programs That Work. A Resource of Exemplary Educational Programs Approved by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel Education Division, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Sixth Edition. This catalog is intended to make successful programs and practices available so that interested school districts may adapt and install their key elements. All programs were approved by program offices within their funding agencies and often by state education agencies. All were then carefully scrutinized for quality by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. All programs demonstrated convincing evidence of effectiveness. Many programs are products of the National Diffusion Network. This annual catalog includes up-to-date information on all programs that were described in previous editions and over 30 additional programs. The appendix offers several listings of state coordinators of federally funded programs who may be able to assist local schools through technical assistance with new educational practices. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Career Education, Catalogs, Demonstration Programs

Calhoun, Craig J., Ed.; Ianni, Francis A. J., Ed. (1976). The Anthropological Study of Education. The book presents 21 essays representative of current international anthropological research in education. The categories of this rather broad range of studies are noninstitutional education, institutional education in society, the organization of educational institutions, and language and education. The two essays in the first section examine forms of social mechanisms for the transmission of knowledge outside of educational institutions. The second and third sections comprise the major portion of the book. Subjects addressed in the second section include the relationship of institutional education to national development in Cambodia, the structuring of what is taught in the United States, resistance to Western education in Nigeria, and the relationship of anthropology and education to social planning. The third section focuses on the problem of working out a new relationship between empirical methodology and theory relevant to educational institutions. One essay discusses a comparative study of three American high schools based on the assumption that the school is a completely discrete system, which it is not. Views of members of one ethnic and political group toward educational institutions imposed on them by others, and the role of anthropology in development and change in educational institutions are also considered. The two essays in the final section are concerned with the development of bilingual/bicultural programs for Chicanos and the relationship between the ethnography of communication and the teaching of language. Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bilingual Education, Books, Change Agents

Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. (1980). Vocational Education. Report by the Secretary of Education to the Congress. This report prepared by the Policy Analysis and Legislation Staff of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, for the Congress, discusses the status of vocational education using statistical information, state evaluations, and audits, and reports compliance and quality of vocational education programs in selected states. The general provisions of state vocational programs, their basic grant structure, and a review of state program improvement and supportive services are provided. In addition, the states' programs for the disadvantaged and for consumer and homemaking education are reviewed. Presented next are the general provisions of national vocational programs along with an overview of programs of national significance, bilingual vocational training, and the emergency assistance program for remodeling and renovation of vocational education facilities. Then a discussion of the Appalachian Regional Development Commission (ARDC) is provided. Twenty enrollment tables and 12 funding tables are appended. It is reported that total enrollment in vocational education at all levels reached a record of 17 million with expenditures at $6.5 billion in fiscal year 1979.   [More]  Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indian Education, Annual Reports, Bilingual Education

York Borough Board of Education, Toronto (Ontario). (1977). The Report of the Work Group on Multiculturalism. The report on the impact of multiculturalism on the education system in the Borough of York (Ontario) summarizes findings of a two year study and provides recommendations to enhance multiculturalism in education. The report is presented in six chapters. Chapter I explains the work group task and method of inquiry and identifies work group participants. Chapter II presents a Canadian perspective on multiculturalism, followed by a profile of cultures in the Borough of York in chapter III. Chapter IV discusses the work group's interpretation of multicultural education. Multicultural education is perceived to value the presence of many cultures, human rights, social justice, and alternative life choices for all people. Chapter V, the bulk of the report, examines and presents recommendations on six issues related to multiculturalism: (1) a nondiscriminatory school and community environment; (2) retention of culture and language; (3) curriculum for multiculturalism; (4) immigrant students; (5) staffing and teacher preparation for a multicultural school population; and (6) government role in multiculturalism. Chapter VI offers guidelines for implementing the recommendations of the report, including establishment of an implementation committee with duties in areas of coordination, reporting, cost analysis, and evaluation. The appendix lists organizations, institutions, government agencies, and individuals who submitted information to the work group on multiculturalism or responded to the draft report. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Differences

Rivers, Wilga M. (1972). Speaking in Many Tongues: Essays in Foreign-Language Teaching. Expanded 2nd Edition. This volume includes the following seventeen essays on foreign language teaching: (1) "Rules, Patterns, and Creativity"; (2) "Talking Off the Tops of Their Heads"; (3) "From Linguistic Competence to Communicative Competence"; (4) "Testing and Student Learning"; (5) "Contrastive Linguistics in Textbook and Classroom"; (6) "From Skill Acquisition to Language Control"; (7) "Motivating through Classroom Techniques"; (8) "Motivation in Bilingual Programs"; (9) "The Foreign Language Teacher and Cognitive Psychology or Where Do We Go from Here?"; (10) "Linguistic and Psychological Factors in Speech Perception and Their Implications for Teaching Materials"; (11) "Foreign Languages in a Time of Change"; (12) "From the Pyramid to the Commune: The Evolution of the Foreign-Language Department"; (13) "The Non-Major: Tailoring the Course to Fit the Person – Not the Image"; (14) "University of Illinois Questionnaire of Student Interests in Foreign Languages"; (15) "Teacher-Student Relations: Coercion or Cooperation"; (16) "Individualized Instruction and Cooperative Learning: Some Theoretical Considerations"; and (17) "Students, Teachers, and the Future." Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics

Mackey, William F., Ed.; Andersson, Theodore, Ed. (1977). Bilingualism in Early Childhood. Papers from a Conference on Child Language. This book consists of the 29 papers presented at the Conference on Child Language co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Chicago in November of 1971. The subject of the conference was restricted to the learning of two or more languages or dialects by young children, especially between the ages of three and eight, with particular attention to the social setting. The volume is divided into the following eight sections: (1) Theory and Method; (2) Early Language Learning; (3) Family Bilingualism; (4) Bilingualism and Society; (5) Planning Preschool Language Learning; (6) Planning the Primary Curriculum; (7) Case Studies of School Bilingualism; and (8) Policy and Research. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Child Language

Aid, Frances M.; Pino, Octavio (1976). Studies in Bilingualism: Methods for Teaching Spanish-S. This course guide for a teacher education program takes a modular approach to the training of teachers for Spanish-S programs in bilingual elementary schools. Each of the four modules presents a number of tasks for the student to accomplish, and provides a list of resources to assist the student. The modules cover the following topics: (1) language acquisition theories (with emphasis on linguistic interference in second language learning), (2) audio-lingual methodology, (3) developing native language (i.e., Spanish) skills, and (4) measurement of linguistic competence. Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Course Descriptions

Bjerstedt, Ake, Ed.; Gustafsson, Evy, Ed. (1978). Towards Intergroup and Global Solidarity Via Teacher Training. Teacher Training as a Vehicle in Fostering Intercultural Awareness, Intergroup Understanding, and Global Solidarity: A Collection of Abstracts. No. 60. This annotated bibliography identifies over 100 resources available through the ERIC system. It focuses on the improvement of inservice or preservice teacher training for the purpose of fostering intercultural awareness, intergroup understanding, and global solidarity. Topics listed include international understanding via student teaching abroad, developing creative materials for teaching the culturally different child, evaluation of curriculum materials, and reviews of literature related to segregation and racism. Some descriptions of training institutes for teachers and school administrators are also included. Entries for the bibliography were located in the ERIC system from 1966-1976. Information is included on author, title, institutional source, publication date, number of pages, ERIC accession number, and availability from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service. A 200-word abstract and ERIC descriptors are included. Descriptors: Abstracts, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education

Benally, Elaine Roanhorse; And Others (1980). American Indian Education Fact Sheets and Mini Review. Two fact sheets and a minireview are directed at improving American Indian education. The first fact sheet deals with curriculum development for Indian students by the classroom teacher. Curriculum, scope, and sequence are defined, and suggestions are made for using commercially prepared curriculum materials (which often ignore minority representation) as supplements to individually planned programs. A list of 14 centers and organizations that specialize in American Indian-oriented curriculum is included. The problems of stereotyping and depersonalization of Indians, prevalent in children's literature, are described in the mini review, and guidelines for selecting unbiased reading materials are discussed. Ten methods and strategies for effectively using the literature, a challenge to present young readers with truthful and meaningful materials, and a list of instructional materials and reading selections are given. In the second fact sheet, a brief history of American Indian legislative funding is described, with an emphasis on particular pieces of funding being used to aid Indian education today. A summary of Alaska's development of Indian education is revealed as exemplary of some of the problems encountered in achieving quality education. It is suggested that further research, better use of funding, and continued pursuit by the Indian student will provide hope for a better education in the future.   [More]  Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Bilingual Education

Parrish, Berta E.; And Others (1978). New Directions in Reading Education. Volume 1. The nine articles presented in this yearbook were drawn from Arizona State University's Annual Reading Conference which focused on new directions in reading. Four of the articles deal with evaluation techniques in reading and include discussions of developing culture-fair informal reading inventories, what oral language tests really measure, and evaluations of norm-referenced and criterion-referenced measures of reading achievement. The theory and practice related to expressive language skills are discussed in two articles, one dealing with teaching in a bilingual culture, the other with language development through the content areas. The remaining three articles cover the need for readability estimates in the selection of supplementary reading materials, a suggestion that reading researchers look to government and industry for support, and a plea for all educators to humanize instructional practices. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests

Oppenheimer, Zelda V. (1975). Careers for Bilinguals. Volume One. [Student Workbook]. Focusing on the Hispanic culture, this student workbook is intended to fill the needs of minority groups who have been exposed to non-standard English or foreign language environments and/or who are in need of perfecting their English language skills. It can be used with bilingual or monolingual junior and senior high school students, adults in continuing education, students in alternative schools, and students in correctional institutions. Presented in seven units, the concepts and exercises in this workbook serve as a guide to career awareness, while raising levels of aspiration, and emphasize cognitive and affective learning. The program also offers a guidance process designed to encourage community involvement. All seven units are developed around dialogs, the last two of which are units for the more advanced students. Some of the careers included relate to health services, law enforcement, communications, mass transportation, real estate, law and consumer economics, import-export business, franchises, and foreign service. A number of the exercises show women in key positions. Included also is a student's evaluation booklet which contains six kinds of proficiency tests. A teacher's manual (CE 013 448) accompanies this workbook and contains teaching suggestions, related information, an evaluation guide, and a booklet of illustrations related to the student workbook units. An audio cassette which records the workbook dialogs and selected exercises is also available (see availability note). Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Career Awareness