Miranda, Jose P., Jr.; Valencia, Richard R. (1997). English and Spanish Versions of a Memory Test: Word-Length Effects versus Spoken-Duration Effects. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, v19 n2 p171-81 May. Uses "word length" (syllable count) and "spoken duration" to examine cross-language equivalence of tests measuring short-term memory. Although the English and Spanish versions of the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test had considerably different word length, the performance of bilingual college students did not differ between tests. Spoken duration quantification did not differ between tests. Contains 28 references. (SV)…

Patterson, Leslie; Rubin, Renee (2002). Revaluing: Coming To Know Who We Are and What We Can Do. Voices from the Middle, v10 n1 p21-26 Sep. Tells what happened when the authors invited six eighth graders to participate in a bilingual Reading Detective Club with the goal of helping them revalue themselves and what they can do as readers. Argues that when students believe their thinking and ideas are valued beyond getting a correct answer, their self-efficacy and engagement with reading are likely to increase. (SG)…

Carlo, Maria S.; Royer, James M. (1991). Transfer of Comprehension Skills from Native to Second Language. Journal of Reading, v34 n6 p450-55 Mar. Investigates whether transfer of reading and listening comprehension skills occurs in bilingual programs. Finds that reading and listening skills in the native language do transfer to reading in the second language but that general language ability is not significantly involved in the transfer of reading skills to a second language. (RS)…

Martin Lara, Susan G. (1989). Reading Placement for Code Switchers. Reading Teacher, v42 n4 p278-82 Jan. Examines the phenomenon of code switching (when bilingual speakers use languages interchangeably) in Mexican-American first graders. Cites several reasons for code switching, and discusses implications for reading instruction. (MM)…

Lopez, David; McLester, Susan (1994). Smart Choices for the ESL Classroom. Technology and Learning, v14 n7 p22-23,26-32 Apr. Reviews four current software titles recommended for use in the ESL (English-as-a-Second-Language) classroom: Story Club; Steps to English Language Development; ELLIS Senior Mastery; and Madison Stories–After the Auction. Several other software packages of value in the ESL classroom are also described. (SLW)…

Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich (1994). Appropriating the Voice of the Superheroes: Three Preschoolers' Bilingual Language Uses in Play. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, v9 n2 p171-94 Jun. Investigated how three Spanish-speaking children, enrolled in a bilingual preschool, used Spanish and English with each other. Results indicated that exposure to English books and popular cultural materials enabled them to use English readily and easily but that their use of English during play superceded their use of Spanish, suggesting the potential for imbalance in their bilingual and biliterate development. (WP)…

Moffatt, Suzanne (1991). Becoming Bilingual in the Classroom: Code Choice in School. Language and Education: An International Journal, v5 n1 p55-71. In this sociolinguistic study of the language patterns of 10 young mother-tongue Panjabi-speaking children, the children are educated in England and first exposed to English at about age 3, resulting in sequential acquisition of bilingualism. Clear patterns of language choice are reported. (33 references) (Author/LB)…

Jones, Toni Griego (1991). Rethinking Programs for Language Minority Students. Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students, v9 p61-74 Fall. The implementation of bilingual and English-as-a-Second-Language programs in public schools was examined as part of a larger study on school district personnel's perceptions of change and roles played in change efforts within school systems. Results suggest a need for more sophisticated knowledge of program implementation techniques. (10 references) (LB)…

de Felix, Judith Walker; Pena, Sylvia Cavazos (1992). Return Home: The Effects of Study in Mexico on Bilingual Teachers. Hispania, v75 n3 p743-50 Sep. A project is reported in which selected bilingual Mexican-American teachers from Texas traveled to Mexico for a four-week study to collect materials appropriate for U.S. classroom use. The effects of the project on language fluency and ethnic self-concept are discussed. (22 references) (LB)…

Kucer, Stephen B. (1995). Guiding Bilingual Students \through\ the Literacy Process. Language Arts, v72 n1 p20-29 Jan. Presents an overview of third-grade bilingual students and their literacy curriculum. Discusses a series of instructional lessons (\strategy wall charts\) developed to provide the students with various tools to work their way through literacy blocks as they read and wrote in English. Looks at patterns of internalization that occurred when the students attempted to use the various strategies. (RS)…

Gonzales, Andrew (1993). An Overview of Language and Development. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v14 n1-2 p5-23. The components of language rights for social development are enumerated and discussed, listed under such rubrics as national language development, languages of instruction, access to a Language of Wider Communication, bilingual schooling, and the cultivation of the national languages. Examples from various countries are cited. (Contains 26 references.) (Author/LB)…

Milk, Robert D. (1990). Preparing ESL and Bilingual Teachers for Changing Roles: Immersion for Teachers of LEP Children. TESOL Quarterly, v24 n3 p407-26 Fall. Describes a teacher training course designed to meet the differing language proficiency needs of bilingual and English-as-a-Second-Language teachers, as well as the needs of teachers learning to implement content-based strategies for teaching language. (15 references) (GLR)…

Kucer, Stephen B. (1999). Two Students' Responses to, and Literacy Growth in, a Whole Language Curriculum. Reading Research and Instruction, v38 n3 p233-53 Spr. Considers different responses of two third-grade bilingual students to an English whole-language literacy curriculum. Examines how the students resisted, appropriated, and/or internalized a whole-language curriculum. Discusses the relationship between student curricular interactions and their literacy development. (SC)…

Andersen, Elaine; Brizuela, Maquela; Stallings, Lynne (1999). Discourse Markers as Indicators of Register. Hispania, v82 n1 p128-41 Mar. Explores the ability of children to use discourse markers (DMs) as indicators of register, examining the distribution of various DMs in the role-play speech of Spanish-dominant bilingual elementary students as they played with puppets representing several characters with different social relationships. Children used DMs to specifically mark differences in status and familiarity/intimacy between interlocutors. (SM)…

Baker, Scott K.; Good, Roland (1995). Curriculum-Based Measurement of English Reading with Bilingual Hispanic Students: A Validation Study with Second-Grade Students. School Psychology Review, v24 n4 p561-78. Investigates the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) reading in English with bilingual Hispanic students. Results indicate that CBM reading in English is as reliable and valid for bilingual students as it is for English-only students. Supports construct validity of CBM reading as a measure of general reading proficiency in English. (Author/JDM)…

Kendall-Melton, Robbie; Murphy, Linda B. (1997). The University of Tennessee at Martin (UTM) and Lane College (LC) Urban-Rural Exchange Partnership Program Phase One: The Purpose and Plan. Action in Teacher Education, v19 n2 p80-88 Sum. A partnership between a historically black urban college and a rural university provides urban-rural early field experience exchange for preservice teachers, offers joint educational seminars, prepares preservice teachers for the National Teacher Examination, provides technological training, recruits minorities for careers in teaching, and establishes a mutual-assistance network for accreditation. (Author/SM)…

Field, Sherry L.; And Others (1996). Real People, Real Places. Social Studies and the Young Learner, v9 n2 p16-18,23 Nov-Dec. Describes a class project where Taiwanese and U.S. students used computers to communicate and work on several joint projects. The students communicated through e-mail and exchanged videos about their school and autobiographies. They collaborated on several culminating projects including creating some hypertext documents with shared links. (MJP)…

Flores, Juan M. (1989). Barrio Folklore as a Basis for English Composition. Equity and Excellence, v24 n2 p72 Win. Minority language students can be successfully taught to write through programs that validate the students' experiences and cultural heritage. Adopting an approach developed by Eliot Wiggington in the Foxfire project, a California educator teaches his Chicano students English composition by emphasizing the richness of family and community folklore and history. (AF)…

Freeman, Margery; And Others (1995). God Revels in Diversity: Converting the Faithful to Antibias Education. Young Children, v50 n2 p20-25 Jan. Describes four educators' experiences as they implemented antibias curriculum and church-based programs in their classrooms. Proposes methods that can foster children's awareness of racial and cultural diversity, and analyzes the importance and benefits of being part of a program that is rooted in antibias-multicultural principles. (AA)…

Perkins, Fran; Strutchens, Marilyn (1994). Literacy in the Inner City. Teaching Pre K-8, v24 n8 p58-59 May. Outlines the evolution and goals of the Family Literacy Project (FLP), developed to encourage parent-school partnerships through regular parent-teacher seminars. The FLP also seeks to improve parents' own literacy skills; provide parents with multiple strategies to help educate their children; and provide teachers and parents with multicultural literature that stimulates children's interest in reading. (MDM)…

Birrell, James R. (1994). Coping with the Culturally Unpredictable: An Ethnically Encapsulated Beginning Teacher's Struggle with African-American Students' Ethnic Behavior. Professional Educator, v16 n2 p27-37 Spr. Reports a study that examined how one ethnically encapsulated white beginning teacher responded to African American students' unfamiliar ethnic behavior. Interviews, observations, and journal data indicated that he was underprepared to teach in multicultural settings and noted that ineffective interracial classroom relationships stifled learning in both the teacher and students. (SM)…

Mastropieri, Margo A.; Scruggs, Thomas E. (1995). Assessment of Students with Learning Disabilities: Current Issues and Future Directions. Diagnostique, v20 n1-4 p17-31 1994-95. Current issues in the assessment of students with learning disabilities are identified, including use of physiological and neuropsychological measures, discrepancy criteria, curriculum-based measurement, dynamic assessment, performance and portfolio assessment, and assessment of learning disabilities in bilingual and multicultural contexts. (Author/DB)…

Kasten, Wendy C. (1992). Bridging the Horizon: American Indian Beliefs and Whole Language Learning. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, v23 n2 p108-19 Jun. Explores the relationship between the principles of whole-language teaching and whole-language learning, especially for elementary school students, and the culture of many Native American students, listing seven points of compatibility. The experience of the Miccosukee Indian School in Miami (Florida) illustrates the use of whole language. (SLD)…

Soto, Lourdes Diaz (1991). Understanding Bilingual/Bicultural Young Children. Young Children, v46 n2 p30-36 Jan. Among the topics examined in this research review of issues in bilingual and bicultural education are (1) demographic and educational trends that point to growing numbers of bilingual and bicultural children; (2) continuing misconceptions about how young children learn a second language; (3) successful approaches in early childhood bilingual education; and (4) practical applications for teachers. (GH)…

Mulcahy, D. G. (1994). Social Education in the European Community. Social Studies, v85 n2 p83-87 Mar-Apr. Contends that educational reform efforts have neglected the values of civic education and its implications for civic and social life. Asserts that this is not true in Europe where an increasing focus on the European dimension in education has a strong civic education component. (CFR)…

Hausman, Jerome (1994). Standards and Assessment: New Initiative and Continuing Dilemmas. Art Education, v47 n2 p9-13 Mar. Asserts that the current national standards movement is a broadly based discussion and debate about what art educators hope to and should accomplish through their work. Reviews the origins and process of developing national art education standards. (CFR)…

Ahlgren, Priscilla (1993). La Escuela Fratney (The Ratney School). Reflections on a Bilingual, Anti-Bias, Multicultural Elementary School. Teaching Tolerance, v2 n2 p26-31 Fall. Experiences of a bilingual multicultural elementary school in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) illustrate how concepts of social justice, equality, and respect for ethnic differences can be introduced. The school is distinguished by its two-way bilingual program that gives every child a chance to master English and Spanish. (SLD)…

Marquis, Carol; Yirchott, Tuckie (1998). Developing a Global Perspective in Your Classroom. Social Studies Review, v37 n2 p38-40 Spr-Sum. Discusses some of the instructional approaches advocated by the California International Studies Project (CISP). CISP proposes integrating global perspectives throughout the entire curriculum. They recommend examining the interdependence between different countries, resources, social issues, and academic subjects. Includes a complete list of CISP project sites and contact numbers. (MJP)…

Stock, Midge Dean (1998). Our Education, Our Future: Look to the Lower Grades. Winds of Change, v13 n1 p20-22 Win. In order for local Native American cultures to be included in the curricula of the lower grades of public schools, Indian parents and community members must represent their community to the school board and establish a presence in the wider school community. Presents assertive, persistent, and well-informed strategies to build positive relationships with teachers and schools. (TD)…

McAuley, Alexander (1998). Virtual Teaching on the Tundra. TECHNOS, v7 n3 p11-14 Fall. Describes how a teacher and a distance-learning consultant collaborate in using the Internet and Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environment (CISILE) to connect multicultural students on the harsh Baffin Island (Canada). Discusses the creation of the class's database and future implications. (AEF)…