APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

The Adverse Effect of Stereotype Threat on the Speech Performance of Latinx Students

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Social

  • Gabriel Camacho
    University of Connecticut
  • Diane Quinn
    University of Connecticut

Abstract

Latinx students randomly assigned to read out loud a standardized reading comprehension passage described as diagnostic of linguistic ability generated a higher frequency of speech errors than Latinx students randomly assigned to read the same passage described as nondiagnostic of linguistic ability and White students randomly assigned to either condition.

Race and Ethnicity

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