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Performance of bilingual and monolingual Hispanic children on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test‐Revised and the McCarthy Perceptual Performance Scale
Author(s) -
Sattler Jerome M.,
Altes Linda M.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198407)21:3<313::aid-pits2310210307>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - peabody picture vocabulary test , psychology , vocabulary , developmental psychology , test (biology) , perception , cognition , intelligence quotient , linguistics , paleontology , philosophy , neuroscience , biology
Abstract This study evaluated the receptive vocabulary ability and nonverbal cognitive ability of 20 monolingual (Spanish‐speaking) and 11 bilingual (Spanish/English‐speaking) Mexican‐American preschool children, ages 45 to 65 months. The children obtained significantly lower scores on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test‐Revised (PPVT‐R) than on the Perceptual Performance Scale of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities. On both measures, the bilingual group obtained significantly higher scores than did the monolingual group. The results support prior recommendations that the PPVT‐R not be used to estimate the intelligence level of Hispanic children.