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Duncan, Sharon E.; De Avila, Edward A. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1979
Hispanic children in grades 1 and 3 were tested to examine the relationship between degree of bilingualism in English and Spanish, intellectual development level, and performance on two tests of cognitive-perceptual functioning or field dependence/independence. A positive, significant relationship was found between relative language proficiency…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingualism, Cognitive Style, Cubans