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English Auditory Discrimination Skills of Spanish-Speaking Children.
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Kramer, Virginia Reyes; Schell, Leo M. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Eighteen Mexican American pupils in the grades 1-3 from two urban Kansas schools were tested, using 18 pairs of sound contrasts, for auditory discrimination problems related to their language-different background. Results showed v-b, ch-sh, and s-sp contrasts were the most difficult for subjects to discriminate. (LC)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Mexican Americans