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Peer reviewedNanez, Jose E., Sr.; Padilla, Raymond V. – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
Two experiments conducted with 49 Chicano high school students, aged 15-17, found that balanced-proficient bilingual speakers had slower rates of cognitive information processing at the level of short-term memory than did unbalanced bilingual speakers. The groups did not differ in rates of cognitive information processing at the simpler level of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cognitive Measurement
