Reasoning Skills of Language Minority Students. Educational Report Series [electronic resource] / Richard P. Duran.
Research on the comparative cognition and cognitive functioning of bilinguals is reviewed for insight into research needed to facilitate the development of reasoning skills in language minority students. Studies of formal reasoning among persons with limited schooling in Central Asia, West Africa, a...
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| Summary: | Research on the comparative cognition and cognitive functioning of bilinguals is reviewed for insight into research needed to facilitate the development of reasoning skills in language minority students. Studies of formal reasoning among persons with limited schooling in Central Asia, West Africa, and Mexico are noted and discussed in the context of schema theory and parent educational background. Language minority students with little formal schooling in their own language are reported to have had difficulties in interpreting formal reasoning problems. The students often refuse to interpret problems as meaningful because the problems included persons, objects, and events that were not a part of their everyday life. Future research will address how language minority students' acquisition of schemata for language forms such as transition expressions may affect their ability to reason effectively in a second language. (MSE) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED291242. Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. Contract Number: 400-85-1010. Also distributed on microfiche by U.S. GPO under ED 1.310/2:291242. |
| Physical Description: | 12 p. |