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Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 9, Número 4, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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El Agua/ Las Acequias5Los Derechos del Agua por David Benavides2Los Derechos del Agua (cont.)3Los Derechos del Agua (cont.)4Acequias: Una Foto5Una Actividad, Esquema de una Suerte6Un Drama7Cenizella (un dramita, nueva versión de Cinderella)7Cenizella (cont.)8Cenizella (cont.)9Cenizella (cont.)10Cenizella (cont.)11Cenizella (cont.)12What is a China Poblana Dress? An Activity13Un Premio Nacional1Michael León - Guerrero14Tres Pueblos5El Pueblo de Laguna15Cochití Pueblo by Ray Trujillo16Cochití Pueblo (cont.)17Dos Actividades: Simular una presa / Another Activity Design a statue of Popé18El Pueblo de Santo Domingo19Un Cantante1Michael Silva20Announcements2Museum of International Folk Art21Sportsmen and Concerned Citizens of New Mexico21The History of Technology in New Mexico 22Popocatépetl 23La Leyenda de Popocatépetl …

Beyond Labels: Coming Of Age In A Multi-Ethnic America (1998), Ewa Irena Pytowska

Rhode Island College Audio Video collection

No abstract provided.

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 9, Número 3, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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La Música 7
Marisol Flores 2
New Mexico Hispano Music Awards 3
New Mexico Hispano Music Association 4
New Mexico Hispano Music Awards, Más Jóvenes 5
NMHMA Photos 6
El Mariachi de la Escuela Kaune 7
Una Canción: La Golondrina 8
Educación Bilingüe 2
Un Ensayo Sobre La Educación Bilingüe, por Virginia Durán Ginn 9
Un Ensayo Sobre La Educación Bilingüe, por Virginia Durán Ginn(cont.) 10
Another Award 1
Innovation in American Government 11
El Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo 2
El Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo 12
Article IX and Article X 13
Book Review 1
Our Lady of …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 9, Número 2, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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La Agricultura 3
NewFarms 2
Un Proyecto Sobre Remedios 3
A Project: Folk Remedies 4
Cuarto Centenario 2
Eventos del Cuarto Centenario 5
Conferencia Genealógica del Cuarto Centenario 6
Genealogía 4
Yo Soy/ I Am 7
¡Mi Mamá/ My Mom, Mi Papá/ My Dad 8
Los Abuelos de mi Mamá 9
Los Abuelos de mi Papá 10
El Día de los Muertos 5
El Día de los Muertos 11
Versos Dedicados a Genoveva Chávez 12
The Gifts my Grandma Gave Me 13
LIBRO: Little Juan Learns a Lesson -a Book Review 14
Una Actividad: Una Calavera Diferente que …

Flarr Pages #8: Spanish Teachers: Eliminate The Grammatical Paradigm To Facilitate Student Learning, Tom Washington

FLARR Pages

Since all textbooks present each new verb in this manner-and we, too, have learned with this approach -use of paradigm is assumed to be the best and possibly the only way to teach verbs.

The truth is that 1) the paradigm impedes the critical process of habit formation, 2) confronts the student with the false idea that one must learn six forms of each verb, and 3) causes unnecessary confusion and stress in the learning process.

Flarr Pages #12: Perspectivismo: A New Approach To Teaching The Subjunctive, Tom Washington

FLARR Pages

The current method of presenting the Spanish subjunctive in textbooks is flawed both conceptually and in its presentation sequentially, and that makes this most critical element of Spanish language more difficult to learn and teach than it should be.

Flarr Pages #11: Spanish: Teaching The "Musical Preterite", Tom Washington

FLARR Pages

If you were given the choice of learning 23 words or 95 words--and you knew that you would acquire the same amount of knowledge either way, which would you choose? That is the positive option that the "musical preterite" offers in teaching the simple past.

Flarr Pages #10: Reading And Writing, Andre Lebugle

FLARR Pages

During the first four or five months, language students learn a limited number of words and structures, which allows them to write on equally limited subjects, usually personal, such as: "Describe yourself, your friends and relatives, your room, your clothes, your weekly activities, etc. What do you buy when you go to the stores? Imagine a dialogue between two characters, etc." This type of composition is fine during that beginning period, but beyond, it loses its usefulness, for the learners tend to recycle the same ideas, phrases and constructions which they have been using since chapter two. Little improvement or …

Flarr Pages #9: Teaching Preterite Vs. Imperfect In Spanish, Debra Maury

FLARR Pages

While textbooks have approached the troublesome practice of teaching the preterite and imperfect in a variety of ways, I have found that those that insist on a "Spanish-only" approach, working strictly in the target language, simply do not deliver the best results when it comes to student comprehension of the past tenses. A concept that does not exist in one's own native language (assuming here that it is English) can not be explained using the foreign language. The difference between preterite and imperfect seems to be one of the most difficult cases which is not best served by the modeling …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 9, Número 1, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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La Agricultura 3
NewFarms 2
Un Proyecto Sobre Remedios 3
A Project: Folk Remedies 4
Cuarto Centenario 2
Eventos del Cuarto Centenario 5
Conferencia Genealógica del Cuarto Centenario 6
Genealogía 4
Yo Soy/ I Am 7
¡Mi Mamá/ My Mom, Mi Papá/ My Dad 8
Los Abuelos de mi Mamá 9
Los Abuelos de mi Papá 10
El Día de los Muertos 5
El Día de los Muertos 11
Versos Dedicados a Genoveva Chávez 12
The Gifts my Grandma Gave Me 13
LIBRO: Little Juan Learns a Lesson -a Book Review 14
Una Actividad: Una Calavera Diferente que …

Equity Policy, Educational Practice, And Limited English Proficient (Lep) Students In Two High Schools In Miami, Dora Acherman-Chor

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Most studies of language minority students' performance focus on students' characteristics. This study uses qualitative methodology to examine instead how educational policies and practices affect the tracking of language minority students who are classified as limited English proficient (LEP). The placement of LEP students in core courses (English, Math, Social Studies, and Science) is seen as resulting from the interaction between school context and student characteristics. The school context includes factors such as equity policy requirements, overcrowding, attitudes regarding immigrants' academic potential, tracking, and testing practices. Interaction among these factors frequently leads to placement in lower track courses. It was …

The Development In The Arabic Verb Forms And Their Semantic Meanings In Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic And Egyptian Colloquial, Azza Mahmoud Hassanein

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Students Writing Across The Disciplines, Elizabeth Arrigoni

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 8, Número 9, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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Fiestas 2
Fiestas del Verano 2
Actividad: Una Fiesta 3
Cuarto Centenario 4
More on the Cuarto Centenario by Ray John de Aragón 4
Eventos del Cuarto Centenario en Septiembre 5
New Mexico Celebrating 400 Years of History a Book Review 6
Una Actividad: El Camino Real 7
Personas 5
Lucía Dolores de Aragón 8
Dos Hermanas 9
Linda Dulcinea Isabella de Aragón 10
Edward Gonzales 11
Art of Edward Gonzales 12
Idioma/ Educación 4
El Bilingüismo Cura por Luis Quiñones 13
El Bilingüismo Cura por Luis Quiñones (cont.) 14
Bilingual Seal at Rio Grande High School 15 …

A Case Study Of The Effects Of Integration On Two Black High Schools In East Tennessee, Sheila R. Knaff

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the effects of integration on two black high schools and their communities in East Tennessee. The purpose of the study was to show how integration impacted these two communities both negatively and positively. The research method was qualitative and used the case study approach. Interviews of former students, teachers, and administrators of these two schools was a primary source of data collection. Further analysis of the data used the qualitative software package QSR NUD*IST 4.0. Data gained from the interviews, coupled with historical and current literature, as well as other published documents in relation to these two …

Attempting Preventing Reinventing The Wheel: Establishing Chicano/A-Latino/A Studies At A Midwest Urban University, Joseph A. Valades, Theresa Barron-Mckeagney, Michael Carroll, Lourdes Gouveia, Lucy Garza

Social Work Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

“This session will focus on the personal observations of three faculty who sought to establish a minor in Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies . . . Follow our graphic accounts as we wrestle with the decision of actually embarking on such a quest amidst our thencurrent demands of doctoral coursework, research, teaching and tenure.” In the fall semester of 1995, Chicano/a Studies was formally recognized as a "minor" at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Two years previously, three faculty members from the College of Public Affairs and Community Service at UNO diligently worked to gather student and faculty support and put the …

Recruitment Of High School Minority Students Into Engineering, Math, Science And Technology Futures On Predominantly White Campuses, Franklin Titus Thompson, Tome Sires, Carol Batt

Teacher Education Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

“This session is for college administrators who wish to make traditionally elitist program more inclusive. Its is also helpful to community and school district personnel who wish to investigate how to set up a similar program in their community.”

Critical Moments: A Case Study Approach For Easing The Cultural Isolation Of Underrepresented College Students, Reshell Ray, Diane Gillespie

Teacher Education Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This workshop will familiarize participants with a cultural diversity case study approach for curriculum reform called “Critical Moments.” The program has a culturally diverse student body and a multicultural curriculum in the social sciences and . . . has won national and local awards for its retention and teaching of underrepresented students.

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 8, Número 8, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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EL Agua del Mundo 0 2
La Lluvia y la Nieve 0 3
New Mexico Water Resources 4
Rivers in New Mexico 4
A Map of the Río Grande Project 5
Lakes in New Mexico 6
Una Actividad: Dibujar los Ríos y los Lagos en su Condado 7
El Folklore Sobre el Agua 3
Adivinanzas 8
Canción 9
Dichos 10
Acequias 4
Acequias 11
How are Acequias Organized? 12
New Mexico Association/ Acequia Commission 13
Una Actividad: Busque las Palabras 14
Bureau of Reclamation 6
Bureau of Reclamation 15
Eluid Martínez 16
Conservación del Agua 17
Ways you …

Flarr Pages #7: Culture And Society Through The Media: An Innovative Approach To Intermediate German, Madelyn Burchill

FLARR Pages

The intermediate year of language study is crucial. Not only is it a bridge to advanced study, but at the college level it includes a varied group of learners from understandably different introductory backgrounds. Most agree, it presents the greatest challenge for appropriate text selection and application!

The Role Of Ethnicity Among International Students In Adjustment To Acculturative Stress, Mohd Tajudin Hj Ninggal

Dissertations

This study examined whether there were differences in six acculturative stress themes among three Malaysian ethnic groups who were enrolled at Western Michigan University during the Fall, 1997 semester. The study also investigated whether the following demographic attributes: (a) gender, (b) academic major, (c) financial sponsorship, (d) family socioeconomic status, (e) type of residential setting, and (f) scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) affected Malaysian students in relation to the six acculturative stress themes: (1) Perceived Discrimination, (2) Homesickness, (3) Perceived Hate, (4) Fear, (5) Culture Shock, and (6) Guilt.

A total of 138 respondents …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 8, Número 7, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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El Coro Santo Niño 3
Juan Ortega y el Coro Santo Niño 2
Canción: Una Docena de Rosas 3
Un Calendario Maternal 4
Unas Personas Interesantes 8
Jeff Romero, Procurador de Distrito 5
Jesus Armando Martínez AKA Chuy 6
Mary Jane Habermann 7
Activity: It Pays to be Bilingual 8
Larry Delgado, Un Alcalde Nuevo para Santa Fe 9
Patrick Shea, Director del BLM 10
Pamela Herrera, The BLM/ HACU Student Intern Program 11
Activity: An Interesting Person 12
Dos Versos 2
Poema: No Hay por Carola Soler 13
Poema: ¿Quién Eres? por Sabine Ulibarrí 14
La Jornada …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 8, Número 6, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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Los San Patricios 2
La Primavera 2
Un Verso: El Nido and an Activity 3
Remedios para las Alergias 4
La Cuaresma 5
La Cuaresma 5
Torrejas/ Salsa de Chile 6
Quelites/ Salmon Patties 7
Panocha 8
Una Actividad: Baile de los Cascarones 9
Un Verso: 1
Tu Cultura por Maribel y Marizol de Portales 10
El Simposio en Santa Fe 11
El Camino Real 2
Un Mapa 12
La Historia del Camino Real 13
El Cuarto Centenario 8
A Pastoral Letter from Michael J. Sheehan 14
¿Qué Pasó en Acoma? 15
Cuarto Centenario Controversies in New Mexico …

''A Tree Bears Many Fruit'' Undergraduate Service Learning­ A Redefinition, Shekhar K. Regmi

Master's Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

The Cultural Ideas Exchange Program Model, Monika L. Walker

Teacher Education Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

“The primary objective of Cultural Ideas Exchange Program or CIEP is to provide informative insight and reports on those issues and events that ultimately affect the lives and welfare of minority and ethnic student populations.” Primary Objective Historically, the "ideas" to include opinions and societal contributions of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, as well as other diverse cultural groups have often been underrepresented in the North American social and political scheme. The Cultural Ideas Exchange Program or CIEP is based on global communication and has been developed in an effort to:

• Provide informative insight and reports on those …

An Intergenerational Literacy Project For Migrant Families, Sandra E. Harmening, Amy C. Kiesz

All Graduate Projects

The relationship between student achievement and parental involvement was reviewed and found to be significant. A model project was developed to include seven migrant families intergenerationally within the context of the classroom. The purpose was to enhance the relationship between students and parents/guardians and between these low literacy families and the school institution. The result was projected to be a better understanding of each family's heritage, an increase in volunteerism at the school site, more interest in school work and accomplishment, and the possible residual effect of parental desire to improve their literacy skills.

Inservice Lessons On Effective Sheltering Techniques For Mainstream Teachers, Lani H. Lynch

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was·to draw together evidence of successful English as a Second Language programs and sheltered classrooms. With those examples, I composed a series of teacher inservice lessons. The lessons were designed to show teachers why sheltering techniques are essential in every classroom, what those strategies are, and how to incorporate them into their own classrooms.

Development Of A Family Literacy Program To Improve English Reading And Language Acquisition Of Limited English Speaking Parents And Children., Terri Lee Ritter

All Graduate Projects

A family literacy program to assist Hispanic parents and children in improving English reading and language acquisition skills was developed. Limited English speaking families in Quincy, Washington were served by a variety of lessons, developed in response to need. The results showed a desire by families to continue with the project, as well as an higher achievement in score on the reading and language sub-tests of the Metropolitan Achievement Test by students having a seventy percent program attendance rate in comparison with limited English speaking students of non-participating families. Program modifications for the following school year were discussed.

Multi-Culture Unit On Native Americans, Calvin E. Marschall

All Graduate Projects

The culture of the Native American has been ignored by the educational institutions of the United States far too long. With the recent comi decisions upholding Native American treaties, local school districts must obligate themselves to the teaching of Native American culture. The purpose of this project was to develop a multicultural unit, about Native American culture, and then introduce this unit of study into the history classes at Wenatchee High School.

Teaching English/Spanish Cognates To Increase Reading Comprehension, Stacey A. Suhm

All Graduate Projects

A curriculum has been developed for middle school English as a Second Language (ESL) students to improve their reading comprehension. A review of the literature found that vocabulary is an essential part of reading comprehension and becoming aware of English/Spanish cognates can increase the students' English vocabulary. The curriculum includes a survey to assess a student's knowledge and use of cognates, lesson plans to introduce the concept of cognates, to practice recognizing English/Spanish cognates, and learn the correlation of suffixes between English and Spanish. The curriculum also includes lists of English/Spanish cognates divided by subjects.