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Students Classified as LD Who Received Course Substitutions for the College Foreign Language Requirement

A Replication Study

Education Department at the College of Mt. St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio

Lois G. Philips

College of Arts and Science at Miami University

James Javorsky

Human Development and Child Studies Department at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan

This replication study examined whether 158 college students classified as learning disabled (LD) who were granted course substitutions for the foreign language (FL) requirement would display significant cognitive and academic achievement differences when grouped by levels of IQ—achievement and achievement—achievement discrepancy and by level of performance on an FL aptitude test (Modern Language Aptitude Test; MLAT), phonological/orthographic processing measures, and in FL courses. The results showed that there were few differences among groups with differing levels of IQ—achievement or achievement—achievement discrepancy (i.e., < 1.0 SD, 1.0—1.49 SD, and > 1.50 SD) on MLAT and American College Testing (ACT) scores, graduating grade point average (GPA), or college FL GPA. The results also showed that between groups who scored at or above versus below the 15th percentile (i.e., < 1.0 SD) on the MLAT, there were no differences on measures of graduating GPA, college FL GPA, native language skill, ACT score, and Verbal IQ. Demographic findings showed that 44% of these petition students met a minimum IQ—achievement discrepancy criterion ( 1.0 SD) for classification as LD. These findings suggest that many traditional assumptions about LD and FL learning are likely to be false.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 35, No. 6, 482-500 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/00222194020350060101


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