Using Spanish as the Language of Instruction with Mexican-American Head Start Children: A Re-Evaluation Using Meta-Analysis
- 1 April 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 56 (2) , 359-366
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1983.56.2.359
Abstract
Data from an earlier study of a cognitively-based English-language training program for 67 Mexican-American Head Start children were re-analyzed using meta-analysis. A comparison of posttest and follow-up test results on various instruments showed that the use of Spanish as the language of instruction resulted in larger effect sizes than did the use of English, both languages, or a control treatment using arts, crafts, and music activities. Recently expressed doubts about the efficacy of beginning instruction in non-English speakers' native languages are questioned.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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