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SOME UNUSUAL CONSERVATION BEHAVIOUR IN CHILDREN EXPOSED TO TWO CULTURES
Author(s) -
KELLY M.,
TENEZAKIS M.,
HUNTSMAN R.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1973.tb00754.x
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , developmental psychology , english language , cognition , linguistics , mathematics education , philosophy , ecology , neuroscience , biology
S ummary . Greek migrant children attending Sydney (NSW) schools and taught in English were tested for conservation of number and length in both Greek and English. They were pre‐tested in both languages for understanding of the terms to be used in the conservation test. 25 per cent of children who passed the language pre‐tests and failed to conserve in English, did show conservation when subsequently tested in Greek but again failed to conserve in a post‐test in English. This finding is not in accord with Piaget's view of the inter‐relationships of language and cognition.