American Cultures: Assimilation and Multiculturalism

by Elżbieta H. Oleksy (Editor)

This important study higlights the construction of a strong psycholinguistic model that can explain how bilingual children develop cognitively and linguistically in a Spanish/English speaking setting. Conceptualized with the objective of developing a novel and strong psycholinguistic model, this research study explains how young children develop cognitively and linguistically when they have been immersed in a bicultural and bilingual environment. This study proves that bilingualism can be an enrichment for cognitive development, provided that cognitive, cultural and linguistic variables are manipulated in a quasi-experimental rigorous research design that enable children to learn more successfully. All those involved with Bilingual Education, Educational Psychology and linguistics will benefit from the wealth of information in this extrordinarily robust scholarly work.

166 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1996