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Beals, Mark G. – 1981
The main thrust of American education has been cognitively oriented. Recent research on the human brain suggests that such orientation is a general function of only one hemisphere of the brain, the left. Because of the close relationships among speech, language, thinking, reasoning, and the higher mental functions, the left brain hemisphere…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Convergent Thinking
Peer reviewedDuncan, Sharon E.; De Avila, Edward A. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1979
Hispanic children in grades 1 and 3 were tested to examine the relationship between degree of bilingualism in English and Spanish, intellectual development level, and performance on two tests of cognitive-perceptual functioning or field dependence/independence. A positive, significant relationship was found between relative language proficiency…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingualism, Cognitive Style, Cubans
