The Performance of Monolingual and Bilingual Mexican Children on the TACL

This paper presents normative data for the Spanish version of the Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language (TACL). The data were collected from 60 Mexican children in three age groups, 4-0 to 4-5, 6-0 to 6-5, and 8-6 to 8-11. Half of these children were monolingual Spanish speaking residents of a government orphanage, while the other half were students in a private school where all instruction was done in English. For both the monolingual and bilingual children, TACL scores increased with age. However, at all ages, the performance of the bilingual children was superior to that of the monolingual Spanish speakers.

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