Identifying Differences in Early Literacy Skills Across Subgroups of Language-Minority Children: A Latent Profile Analysis

Despite acknowledgment that language-minority children come from a wide variety of home language backgrounds and have a wide range of proficiency in their first (L1) and second (L2) languages, it is unknown whether differences across language-minority children in relative and absolute levels of prof...

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Published in:	Developmental psychology 2018-04, Vol.54 (4), p.631-647
Main Authors:	Lonigan, Christopher J., Goodrich, J. Marc, Farver, JoAnn M.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	At Risk Populations At Risk Students Child development Child Language Child, Preschool Children Cognition Cognitive Ability Competence Comprehension Early Childhood Development Early literacy Emergent Literacy English language English Language Learners Expressive Language Female Foreign Language Learning Growth Models Human Humans Language Development Language Minorities Language Proficiency Language Skills Language Tests Languages Latent Profile Analysis Likelihood Functions Listening Comprehension Tests Literacy Literacy skills Longitudinal Studies Male Minority Groups Minority Groups - psychology Minority languages Minority students Multilingualism Nonverbal Ability Oral Language Phonetics Phonological Awareness Preschool Children Preschool Students Print awareness Printed Materials Profiles Reading Receptive Language Second language learning Second languages Skills Spanish Spanish language Speech Perception Statistical Analysis
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