Bilingual Classrooms in a Mexican-American Community. The Social Bases of Thinking and Speaking [microform] : A Study of Bilingual Chicano Children. Final Report, September 1974 / Murray L. Wax and Reid A. Luhman
- Bib ID:
- 5346918
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Wax, Murray L
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1974
- 246 p.
- Summary:
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The study examined the relation of language use and logical thought to social experience with both age and class held constant. The primary assumptions under study were: that the logic of symbolic grouping was highly sensitive to a child's experience with the objects to which that logic was applied; that the existence of diglossia in a bilingual community and/or relative shifts in language dominance might create a situation of language specialization by domain, particularly along the dimension of immediacy and distance; that the content of grouping (those final organizations produced by the logic) was a far more stable aspect of cognition than the logic used to construct it. The study was conducted in a fourth grade classroom in a bilingual school in Las Vegas, New Mexico. All of the children had Spanish surnames. Twenty-eight children took part in an extensive set of interviews in two languages. These interviews were designed to examine inter-relations of language use and the logic and content of symbolic grouping to social experience. Findings included: the logic of grouping was related to children's experience with the objects of grouping; town children had a much narrower and more specialized portion of their experience occurring in Spanish than did the rural children; the logic of grouping employed by these children was not related to school achievement with the one exception of the clustering of the tight-loose factor in Spanish with achievement test scores. (NQ)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: NE-G-00-3-0131.
- ERIC Note: Contains occasional light print.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Abstract Reasoning
- Academic Achievement
- Bilingual Students
- Cognitive Processes
- Cognitive Style
- Cultural Influences
- Diglossia
- Elementary Education
- Grade 4
- Language Acquisition
- Language Usage
- Logical Thinking
- Mexican Americans
- Semantics
- Social Experience
- Speech Skills
- Symbolic Learning
- Syntax
- New Mexico (Las Vegas)
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- ERIC
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- Publication date:
- 1974
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