One Method for Producing Automatic Control of English Phonology and Structure

Abstract

The bilingual Mexican-American child represents one of the most vexing educational problems in Texas and other states in the Southwest. He represents problems that are only superficially similar to those posed by bilingual school children in the immigrant centers of the United States-European and Cuban immigrants, for example. He is unlike the European in that generally his ancestors lived in the area long before it was settled by the Englishspeaking society; he is unlike the European in that he has generally resisted total assimilation but, like the Puerto Rican, maintains a strong traditional pride in his cultural and linguistic heritage, however meager his knowledge of them might be. He is unlike the Cuban immigrants in that his parents usually are unskilled or semi-skilled laborers and farmers, with limited education and low socio-economic status.