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Peer reviewedWhitaker, Joseph H.; Prieto, Alfonso G. – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1989
A review of studies investigating the effects of bilingualism on the cognitive and academic performance of language-minority students indicates both negative and positive effects. Compared with monolingual students, differences favoring bilingual students are found in studies utilizing Piagetian measures, which are not heavily language dependent.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
The Threshold Project focuses on the language and learning difficulties that children in Southern African schools experience when they change from their mother tongue to English as a medium of instruction in their fifth year of schooling. This report discusses Threshold Project research relating to the nature of pupils' cognitive capacities and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development
