Cheap Ship Trips: A Preliminary Study of Some English Phonological Difficulties of Language-Minority Children and Their Relationship to Reading Achievement. Bilingual Education Paper Series, Vol. 7, No. 4

A study of the pronunciation problems of language-minority children had as subjects 578 first, third, and fifth-graders from seven ethnolinguistic groups (urban and rural Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, Franco-Americans, Native Americans, and Chinese-Americans) from low to low-mid...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author Duncan, Sharon E
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.11.1983
Subjects
American Indians
Chinese Americans
Comparative Analysis
Cross Cultural Studies
Cubans
Elementary Education
English (Second Language)
Ethnic Groups
French
Grade 1
Grade 3
Grade 5
Hispanic Americans
Low Income Groups
Mexican Americans
Minority Groups
Phonology
Pronunciation
Puerto Ricans
Reading Achievement
Spanish Speaking
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:A study of the pronunciation problems of language-minority children had as subjects 578 first, third, and fifth-graders from seven ethnolinguistic groups (urban and rural Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, Franco-Americans, Native Americans, and Chinese-Americans) from low to low-middle income communities in California, Texas, Florida, New York, Louisiana, and New Mexico and 128 Anglo children from similar income groups. Results showed a significant positive relationship between phoneme production and reading achievement for some groups of third and fifth-graders, as well as for Anglo first-graders. The difficulty pattern varied across the ethnolinguistic groups, but the greatest pronunciation difficulty for the language-minority children was with the phonemes acquired last by first-language English speakers. While some phonological difficulties seem to disappear with increasing age for some groups, for others the difficulties are greater in the higher grades. (Author/MSE)