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Tsang, Sau-Lim – 1976
This study investigates the effects of the language factor and the cultural content factor of mathematical testing on two different non Anglo ethnic groups: the Chinese and the Chicano. Twenty five word problems, judged to be biased against the Chinese or the Chicano students, were selected from several seventh and eighth grade mathematics…
Descriptors: Achievement, Bilingual Students, Chinese Americans, Cultural Influences
Genishi, Celia Shinobu – 1976
This study describes rules of code-switching (choice between languages) in four six-year-old Spanish/English bilinguals in a school setting, to show that bilingualism is a sociolinguistic competency. Data included 306 episodes of situational code-switches and 64 episodes of conversational code-switches. The children consistently applied the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism