Peniche Leger, Maria Elena (1972). Tecnologia educativa: Lengua nacional 6. Guiones didacticos para el profesor (Educational Technology: National Language 6. Teacher's Guide). This is the sixth in a series of six teacher's guides designed to accompany the Senda textbooks (FL 004 047 through 004 052). It contains instructions for presenting the lessons and for handling the individual needs of the pupils. (Author/SK)…

de Laricheliere, Joyce (1971). Preservation of a National Resource and Preservation of Self. Bilingualism and the cultural and linguistic pluralism that it involves should be preserved and encouraged within the national educational system. Statistics concerning bilinguals on a national scale would present a more accurate picture if based on John Macnamara's definition of bilinguals as \persons who possess at least one of the language skills even to a minimal degree in the second language.\ The benefits of bilingualism, seen as linguistic and cultural pluralism, are unknown, but bilingualism has not been encouraged sufficiently to predict the benefits or the disadvantages. A national commitment to a program of bilingualism must be made before its true value can be known. (VM)…

Bucchioni, Eugene; Cordasco, Francesco (1972). The Puerto Rican Community and Its Children on the Mainland: A Source Book for Teachers, Social Workers and Other Professionals. This collection of readings is organized in four parts. Part I, "Aspects of Puerto Rican culture," includes the following articles: "Explicit and implicit culture in Puerto Rico: a case study in educational anthropology," T. Brameld; "Respeto, relajo, and interpersonal relations in Puerto Rico," A. Lauria; "Puerto Rican spiritualist as a psychiatrist," L. H. Rogler and A. B. Hollingshead; and others. Part II, "The Puerto Rican family," includes such articles as: "Family and fertility in Puerto Rico," J. M. Stycos; "Research on the Puerto Rican family in the United States," C. Senior; and "The Puerto Rican Family and the Anthropologist: Oscar Lewis, 'La Vida' and The Culture of Poverty," F. Cordasco. Part III, "The Puerto Rican experience on the mainland: conflict and acculturation," comprises a statistical profile of the Puerto Rican community of New York and such articles as…

(1968). Enrichment Material for First and Second Year Language Laboratory Program for "A Course in Spoken English for Navajos.". This enrichment material for a first- and second-year language laboratory program was designed for a course in spoken English for Navahos. It was intended for Navahos with a 3rd to 7th grade reading achievement who are learning to speak English as a second language. Included are materials on phonics, grammar, poetry, government, and literature. A table of contents is included. (SK)… [PDF]

Jonz, Jon (1976). Teacher's Guide for Use with the Reading Assessment Materials. This guide has been created to accompany the Lancaster, Pa., School District's Bilingual/ESL Reading Assessment Materials. The guide includes reading tests and information about how the tests were made, about how to give and score the tests, and about how to use test results. The tests are designed to help the teacher monitor changes in students' language proficiency and to give the student the opportunity to receive fair and accurate information about his language development. The Reading Assessment Materials themselves consist of short reading passages in which students are required to fill in blank spaces with appropriate English words or phrases. (CHK)… [PDF]

Bickel, Frank (1985). Classroom Communication: An International Problem. Clearing House, v58 n5 p222-24 Jan. Looks at education in American Foundation Schools in Mexico and finds teacher-student interaction similar to that found in American schools between teachers and Black, inner city students. (FL)…

Johns, Ann M. (1981). The ESL Student in the Business Communication Class. Journal of Business Communication, v18 n3 p31-38 Sum. Discusses the problem of finding appropriate communication and grammar texts for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) business students. Notes that texts do exist; however, more needs to be done before English characteristics of business can be adequately presented to ESL students. Provides lists of available texts. (PD)…

Bergan, John R.; Parra, Elena B. (1979). Variations in IQ Testing and Instruction and the Letter Learning Achievement of Anglo and Bilingual Mexican-American Children. Journal of Educational Psychology, v71 n6 p819-26 Dec. Effects of language of administration on IQ and predictions of letter learning and achievement were investigated for Anglo and bilingual Mexican American preschool children. Significant IQ differences were associated with language of test administration. No significant differences among predictions of letter task performance were obtained for testing or instructional variations. (Author/RD)…

Michael, William B.; Olguin, Leonard (1979). The Development and Preliminary Validation of the Olguin Diagnostic Test of Auditory Perception for Spanish Language-Oriented Children. Educational and Psychological Measurement, v39 n4 p985-97 Win. Based on a sample of 95 first- and second-grade children with a Spanish language orientation (SPLO), psychometric information is provided for a newly constructed auditory perception test designed for children who are attempting to acquire basic reading, writing, and oral skills in standard American English. (Author/CTM)…

Berry, Gordon L.; Lopez, Carol A. (1977). Testing Programs and the Spanish-Speaking Child: Assessment Guidelines for School Counselors. School Counselor, 24, 4, 261-269, Mar 77. Discusses five major factors that contribute to test bias against Spanish-speaking youngsters: culture, language, noun representation, administration of tests, and interpretation of tests. Also presents guidelines for counselors on assessing what tests to use with Spanish-speaking children, which may be applied to other cultually different groups as well. (Author/MC)…

Schirmer, Barbara R. (1997). Boosting Reading Success: Language, Literacy, and Content Area Instruction for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students–and Bilingual Students, and Students Learning English as a Second Language, and Everyone Else Who Needs a Little Help. TEACHING Exceptional Children, v30 n1 p52-56 Sep-Oct. Discusses strategies that teachers can use to support children with and without disabilities in comprehending reading material. Factors contributing to text readability, language learning for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, and strategies for in-class text reading and independent text reading are described. (CR)…

Huer, Mary Blake; Saenz, Terry Irvine (2003). Testing Strategies Involving Least Biased Language Assessment of Bilingual Children. Communication Disorders Quarterly, v24 n4 p184-93 Sum. This article discusses alternative language assessment approaches with children for whom English is a second language. Advantages and disadvantages of each approach are noted. Also, results of a preliminary investigation with 28 bilingual Latino children using modifications of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals are presented. Clinical implications for creating least biased language assessment strategies are addressed. (Contains references.) ( Author/DB)…

Imrie, Jean; Irshad, Khalid (1997). Improving Attainment through Action Research: An Introduction to Hillingdon's Raising Achievement Project. Multicultural Teaching, v15 n2 p15-17 Spr. Describes the Raising Achievement Project designed to address the need for more information on the performance of ethnic minorities for whom English is an additional language, and the need for support for children who have passed the initial stages of learning English. It also describes the action research model used to answer questions about bilingual children's performance. (GR)…

McKay, Sandra (2003). Teaching English as an International Language: The Chilean Context. ELT Journal, v57 n2 p139-48 Apr. Argues that when teaching English as an international language, educators should recognize the value of including topics that deal with the local culture, support the selection of a methodology that is appropriate to the local educational context, and recognize the strengths of bilingual teachers of English. Based on a questionnaire given to Chilean teachers of English, maintains that in Chile there is growing support for such practices and attitudes. (Author/VWL)…

Langer, Judith A.; And Others (1990). Meaning Construction in School Literacy Tasks: A Study of Bilingual Students. American Educational Research Journal, v27 n3 p427-71 Fall. The meaning-making strategies of 12 Mexican-American fifth grade students (5 males and 7 females), for whom English was a second language, were studied. Subjects' understanding and recall of Spanish and English texts were studied. Focus was on determining how reading strategies in both languages and knowledge sources relate to understanding. (SLD)…

Gutierrez, Ramon A. (1995). Historical and Social Science Research on Mexican Americans. This historiographical survey divides the literature on Mexican Americans thematically into five sections: (1) Mexicans as a regionally conquered people (1821-1880); (2) the Mexican as immigrant (1880-1993); (3) the Mexican American minority (1920-1965); (4) Chicanos as a nationality (1965-1993); and (5) recent research trends (1985-1993). These dates are rough approximations for the primacy of these themes in the literature, but the divisions are not so chronologically clear in fact as the diffusion of information, population movements, and paradigm shifts do not always conform to neat and thematic divides. A look at particular works makes it clear that in each of these periods the Mexican population of the United States was negatively stigmatized by its culture and its occupations and persistently viewed as a problem to be cured, if not eradicated. Scholarship written by Chicanos themselves, as is currently emerging, is doing much to change the tenor of research. Mexicans have…

Scheper, George L., Ed. (1999). Community College Humanities Review, 1999. Community College Humanities Review, v20 n1 spec iss Fall. This special issue of the Community College Humanities Review contains articles generated by National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes, held over several years. The institutes provided opportunities for academics from a variety of humanities disciplines and types of institutions to interact over an extended period of common study of topics associated with the encounters of European and indigenous cultures in the New World. The papers included are: (1) "Gender Relations and Political Legitimacy: Replacing Patrilineal with Ancestral Inheritance of Power in Ancient Mayan Society" (Lowell S. Gustafson); (2) "The Making of the Face and Heart: Notes on an Aztec Metaphor" (Paul Aviles); (3) "Image as Text in Post-Contact Mexican Books and Artifacts of Indigenous Origin" (George L. Scheper); (4) "Constructing Nature and Ordering Space/Spain and Mexico" (Mary Ruth Donnelly); (5) "Kiva in the Cloister" (Felix Heap); (6)… [PDF]

Tiedt, Iris McClellan (2000). Teaching with Picture Books in the Middle School. Arguing that picture books have much to offer students in the upper grades (including middle school and even high school students), this book discusses using picture books to stimulate students' thinking in a variety of topic areas. Chapter 1, Using Picture Books in the Middle School To Stimulate Thinking, introduces the topic of using picture books to enhance teaching in middle school classrooms. Chapter 2, Sharing Our Literary Heritage, delves into the resource of Mother Goose rhymes and nursery tales and suggests reasons and ways for engaging older students with these verses and stories. Chapter 3, Promoting Reading Development, focuses on using picture books to support the development of reading abilities; while chapter 4, Stimulating Thinking, Talking, and Writing, examines additional ways of developing literacy skills with particular attention to writing. Chapter 5 is entitled Extending Student Knowledge about Language and Literature; and chapter 6, Understanding and…

Merritt, Marilyn; And Others (1992). Socialising Multilingualism: Determinants of Codeswitching in Kenyan Primary Classrooms. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v13 n1-2 p103-21. Using ethnographic observations of classroom interaction in three primary schools, determinants of teachers' language choice and codeswitching among English, Swahili, and mother-tongue were explored: official school policy, cognitive concerns, classroom management concerns, values and attitudes about societal multilingualism. (36 references) (Author/LB)…

Childs, John Brown (1991). Notes on the Gulf War, Racism, and African-American Social Thought: Ramifications for Teaching. Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, v2 n1 p81-92. Development and enhancement of multicultural and antiracist educational objectives in classes and educational materials that analyze the connection between racism and militarism are crucial for the development of opposition to U.S. interventionism and war making. African-American community resistance to expressed government explanations of Gulf War policy provides an example. (SLD)…

Mitchell-Powell, Brenda (1992). Color Me Multicultural. Multicultural Review, v1 n4 p15-17 Oct. The constructive engagement of various communities through a confluence of information professionals, including graphic designers, librarians, educators, and publishers, is necessary to ensure a culture informed by, and responsive to, all constituents. Positing easy solutions to problems of diversity merely postpones reasoned solutions. (SLD)…

Azzolina, David S. (1993). Boundaries of Identity: Cultural Regionalism and the American West. Multicultural Review, v2 n1 p22-24,26-27 Mar. Geographic region is a useful starting point for thinking about multiculturalism. Multiculturalism encompasses a regional view that acknowledges the value of different vantage points and environments. A bibliography is included of works on the American West that illustrate these points. Editorial notes provide additional titles. (SLD)…

Denton, Karen L.; Muir, Sharon Pray (1994). Making Every Picture Count: Ethnicity in Primary Grade Textbook Photographs. Elementary Education. Social Education, v58 n3 p156-58 Mar. Asserts that, since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, social studies textbooks have changed to reflect a multicultural perspective. Encourages primary-level teachers to supplement instruction with visual aids that represent ethnic groups in positive ways. (CFR)…

(1979). Educational Programs That Work. Sixth Edition, Fall 1979. Intended to stimulate communication among the federal, state, intermediate, local, and postsecondary agencies that share responsibility for the improvement of education, this Department of Education catalog of exemplary educational programs describes all the projects dealt with in previous editions as well as providing information on more than 30 new programs approved by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel. Many specialties in the general field of education are considered. The type of funding projects received and names and addresses of state coordinators who can provide assistance are listed. Programs described are under the auspices of the National Diffusion Network. Name of project, descriptive indexing, target audience, project description, evidence of effectiveness, implementation requirements, financial requirements, services available, and contact persons are listed for all entries. (LH)…

Brown, Bettina Lankard (1997). Adding International Perspectives to Vocational Education. ERIC Digest No. 183. Future workers will need to develop global awareness and an understanding of competitive, cultural, and economic factors that influence ways of doing business to work in the international arena. Vocational education, the educational program area specifically designed to prepare students for work, must infuse international concepts into programs so the youth of today are prepared for the global workplace. Ostheimer (1995) offers five suggestions. First, with the growth of multinational corporations and increased trade among nations, workers need to be aware of global conditions, development, and trends. Second, vocational educators must internationalize the curriculum. Third, vocational education needs to adopt instructional practices that incorporate international dimensions. For example, communication curricula could be upgraded to take students beyond awareness of other cultures to competence in intercultural communication. Fourth, increased corporate input is necessary for… [PDF]

Merryfield, Merry M., Ed.; And Others (1997). Preparing Teachers To Teach Global Perspectives. A Handbook for Teacher Educators. This book provides a conceptual framework that encourages exploration of global perspectives; it provides teacher educators with a guide for establishing goals, objectives, rationale, and a working definition for global education. The chapters are: (1) \A Framework for Teacher Education in Global Perspectives\ (Merry M. Merryfield); (2) \Earth Systems Education: A Case Study of a Globally Oriented Science Education Program\ (Victor J. Mayer); (3) \Teachers' Perspectives on School/University Collaboration in Global Education\ (Timothy Dove, James Norris, and Dawn Shinew); (4) \Cross-Cultural Experiences in Teacher Education Courses: Reflections and Advice from American and African Teachers\ (Cynthia Tyson, Patricia L. Benton, Barbara Christenson, Anku Gollah, and Ousmane Mamourne Traore); (5) \Assessing Teachers for Learner-Centered Global Education\ (Giselle O. Martin-Kniep); (6)\Student Teaching Overseas\ (Craig Kissock); (7) \Infusing Global Perspectives Throughout a Secondary…

Viri, Denis F. (1980). Hopi Education: Integrating Past, Present and Future. Hotevilla-Bacavi Community School. The development of Hotevilla-Bacavi Community School, the first Hopi school to open under Public Law 93-638, is described in this model for other reservation communities. The following projects and programs are outlined: (1) the Hopi-English Language Assessment Battery, designed to assess the total linguistic knowledge of Hopi children in their use of both Hopi and English; (2) the curriculum design project, a pilot project to develop curriculums in maths, language, and science; (3) the "Environmental Literacy" program, through which students learn to deal with changes in their environment as those changes occur; (4) the bilingual/bicultural education program, with areas of concentration in staff training, community education, materials and resource development, and instructional format; (5) the demonstration curriculum and resource development project, which is designed to stimulate the involvement of each student in the process of his own education and which will enable…

McCrossan, Linda V. (1980). Elementary Bilingual/Bicultural Teacher Education Curriculum. The Northern Illinois University (NIU) bilingual/bicultural program is incorporated into an established elementary education program and provides teacher candidates with an integration of extensive practical field experiences and theoretical course work. NIU offers three program options. The Baccalaureate in elementary education with a bilingual/bicultural emphasis provides dual certification and centers on over 250 hours of field work, including a semester in which the candidate serves as a Community or Educational Intern under the auspices of selected community agencies or public schools. The 18-hour Post Baccalaureate Certification Program is designed to provide bilingual certification for and increase the competencies of teachers already functioning in bilingual classrooms. The Masters program is intended for those desiring both a Masters in elementary education and bilingual certification. Screening of program applicants includes a diagnostic language procedure. Extensive…

Banks, James A. (1991). Teaching Multicultural Literacy to Teachers. Teaching Education, v4 n1 p135-44 Sum-Fall. Describes strategies one teacher educator uses in an ethnic studies course designed to prepare teachers for the future (which is predicted to have more minority students and fewer minority teachers). Multicultural educational experiences are essential so teachers can gain social science, pedagogical, and subject matter content knowledge about diversity. (SM)…

Bjerstedt, Ake, Ed. (1994). Education for Peace: A Conference Report of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association (Malta, October-November 1994). Peace Education Reports No. 13. This report presents reviews of the sessions at a recent Peace Education Commission (PEC) of the International Peace Research Association meeting in Malta. The report is divided into five parts, with the first four parts containing examples of full-length papers within different content areas while the fifth part presents abstracts of additional papers. Part 1, "Principles," includes the following papers: (1) "The Role of Peace Education in a Culture of Peace: A Social-Psychological Analysis" (Michael G. Wessells); and (2) "Nonviolence in Education" (Ian M. Harris). Part 2, "Contexts," contains the following: (1) "Exploring Peace Education in South African Settings" (Valerie Dovey); and (2) "Australian Aboriginal Constructions of Humans, Society and Nature in Relation to Peace Education" (John P. Synott). Part 3, "Conflict Resolution," includes: (1) "Conflict-Resolution Skills Can Be Taught" (Benyamin… [PDF]