Re: [xmca] Fwd: NYTimes.com: Hispanic Immigrants' Children Fall Behind Peers Early, Study Finds

[nacho.montero@uam.es]

Mike,
I have read the paper from the NY Times Journalist. A lot of questions  
emerged to my mind... But my experience with scientific journalist is  
not always satisfactory (not taking about sex...).
So let's follow up the publication of the original paper and then  
continue discussing.
A line of argument against the implicit "cultural quality camparison"  
implied in the paper: what about bilingualism? In which language were  
the test applied to all the participants in the study? (it seems to be  
an "ex post facto" study with data already collected)
Between the second and the third year language starts to play a  
central role for cognitive -and motivatinal/emotional- self  
regulation, in which language produced the participants their private  
speech, if any?
Does the UCSD Library suscription to the Maternal and Child Health  
Journal? Could you Mike please make me that favor (I guess Robert  
Lecusay should be interested too... :-)).
NACHO.


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