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A STUDY TO DEVELOP INSTRUMENTS TO MEASURE CHILD BILINGUALISM AND BICULTURAL SOCIALIZATION WAS CONDUCTED IN DEL RIO, TEXAS, A MEXICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN WHICH SCHOOL IS TAUGHT IN BOTH SPANISH AND ENGLISH. THREE INSTRUMENTS WERE DEVELOPED--(1) A SERIES OF 6 TESTS FOR MEASURING LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH, (2) A SIMILAR SERIES OF 6 TESTS FOR SPANISH, AND (3) A SERIES OF 3 INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING SOCIALIZATION. TEST BATTERIES FOCUSED ON THE ORAL-AURAL USE OF LANGUAGE IN REALISTIC SCHOOL SITUATIONS. A RANDOM SAMPLE OF 97 FIRST GRADERS WAS GROUPED INTO 4 EXPERIMENTAL SECTIONS TAUGHT BILINGUALLY BY MEXICAN-AMERICAN TEACHERS AND INTO 4 CONTROL SECTIONS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH BY ENGLISH TEACHERS. THE CONTROL GROUP CHILDREN WERE GIVEN THE ENGLISH SERIES AND INVENTORY OF SOCIALIZATION WHILE THE EXPERIMENTAL CHILDREN WERE GIVEN BOTH THE ENGLISH AND SPANISH SERIES AND THE INVENTORY. ANALYSIS OF TEST RESULTS SHOWED THAT THE EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS WERE AS COMPETENT IN ENGLISH AS THOSE LEARNING ONLY IN ENGLISH AND ALSO BETTER ADJUSTED SOCIALLY. TEST INSTRUMENT VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY WAS DETERMINED AND AN ITEM ANALYSIS CARRIED OUT. APPENDIXES WHICH INCLUDE FACSIMILES OF TEST INSTRUMENTS AND ANALYSES OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA COMPRISE MORE THAN HALF OF THE REPORT. (MS)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert