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The article presents a study related to the speech sounds by the speakers of different languages. The study deals with reactions to a set of stop consonants on the one hand by native speakers of American English, and on the other hand by native speakers of Puerto Rican Spanish, Hungarian, and Thai languages. The results indicate that there is a hierarchy among the cues in the acoustic stimulus for the perception of these sounds in various languages. Such studies can help understanding of the role of the linguistic system in the valuation of stimuli and might also contribute information that will be useful in the teaching of languages.

The article discusses the difficulties encountered in the educational system of the states with Spanish-speaking children. Despite the federal government's effort to provide further educational assistance to the Spanish-speaking children, the level of achievement is still lower than with the English-speaking children. It has been noted that education concept has two basic and dynamically interrelated components, psychological for the method and cultural for the content. The author added that with the stated concept, education can now be defined as the learning process where an individual can take on the culture of his society.