When Scribner and Cole Compared the Abilities of Educated and Uneducated

question 169

Multiple Choice

When Scribner and Cole compared the abilities of educated and uneducated Vai people to judge the grammatical correctness of sentences, they found that:

• A)both groups did equally well.
• B)this metacognitive task was too difficult for both groups.
• C)the literate Vai were much better able to identify grammatical sentences.
• D)the illiterate Vai were much better able to identify ungrammatical sentences.

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