Underachievement in monolingual and bilingual Syrian children

Pages: 437-441
Ahmad Ali (Department of Education, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.)

The research aims to compare monolingual and bilingual in underachievement. Sample included 1048 Syrian children drawn from nine-grade of government schools. The Raven’s Progressive Matrix and achievement scores of the previous final examination were used to identify underachievers. The researcher identified 125 underachievers (46 monolingual and 79 bilingual) and 131 overachievers (73 monolinguals and 58 bilingual). Z-test was used to find out significant of difference between the monolingual and bilingual. Significant difference was found between monolingual and bilingual in the incidence of underachievement. Significant difference was found between monolingual and bilingual in over achievement