When Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, and Chinese people arrived in St. Cloud, Minnesota, to make their homes and send their children to school, there had never been an English as a Second Language program. A successful program was set up quickly and is now facing different concerns. (MT)

Verbal and nonverbal measures of higher cognitive functions were used to examine the degree of difference between the thought processes of culturally deprived and learning disabled children. Four groups of 20 subjects (ages 8-10) were studied. Results of both traditional and qualitative scoring differentiated between the two populations. (JW)

Administered the What I Think and Feel test to 224 fifth- and sixth-grade children in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. All children expressed similar levels of anxiety, and there were no significant differences attributable to national, grade, or sex differences. (JAC)

The Denver Developmental Screening Tests (DDST) was administered to 25 Southeast Asian children (one to five years old) and scores of 150 other DDSTs performed on Southeast Asian children were reviewed. Findings suggested that scores may reflect differences in social and cultural experiences between these children and the standardization sample.…

Compared Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scale score differences of 365 Anglo and Mexican American college students. Anglos scored significantly differently from Mexican Americans on 10 of 13 MMPI scales. With acculturation and age statistically controlled, Anglos and Mexican Americans differed on only the Lie and…

Discusses changing attitudes toward cultural diversity and the teacher's role in promoting attitude change. Offers suggestions for helping in this endeavor. (FL)

Takes a look at the past and present position of English in Nigeria and at its possible future directions. (EL)

Investigates the differences between Japanese and American mothers' perceptions of support from their husbands, and the relationship between these perceptions and the mothers' involvement with their infants. Findings highlight differences in the cultural context of family life in the two societies. (Author/ABL)

Measured beliefs about memory in the aged and assessed items of common knowledge in Sydney, Australia, and Sumatra. Concluded that (1) there is a negative stereotype concerning memory among the aged in both cultures, and (2) old people may choose to remember that which is defined as important by their culture. (GC)

Examines problems and concerns of cross cultural counseling and psychotherapy. Raises specific questions concerning research designs and approaches, differences in cosmology, epistemology, differences in nosology, and problems of evaluation or testing. (JAC)

Both German and American children with learning disabilities performed significantly poorer than their age-level controls on semantic, syntactic, auditory memory, and word retrieval tasks. The majority of the language tasks also differentiated the two age levels (7- to 8- and 12- to 13-year olds) for both groups. (Author/CL)

Discussed is educational program planning for gifted and talented students who are culturally different. Available from: Department of Special Education, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608. (IM)

What could not be done by nature or the most brutal instincts of man is being accomplished in the name of cross-cultural education, not because it is so effective but because of its by-products, which are largely ignored by those who are "saving" the native way of life. (Author)

This book explores the condition of Filipinos in the United States and their self-identification. Filipinos are the largest contingent of Asian/Pacific Islanders in the United States today, and their numbers are growing. The Filipino diaspora is reassessing its historical past and claiming a future that confronts white supremacy. These chapters…

Using a language-centered perspective about culture, this book aims to provide culture-based interpretations for language-in-use and for broader discourse issues. The first three chapters present an overview of language and culture in the United States and introduce the concepts and vocabulary for understanding language and cultural complexity.…