Identifying differences in early literacy skills across subgroups of language-minority children: A latent profile analysis.

ABSTRACT: 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 proficiency in L1 and L2 predict subsequent development of literacy-related skills. The purpose of this study was to identify subgroups of language-minority children and evaluate whether differences in level and rate of growth of early literacy skills differed across subgroups. Five-hundred and twenty-six children completed measures of Spanish and English language and early literacy skills at the beginning, middle, and end of the preschool year. Latent growth models indicated that children's early l

SUBMITTER: Lonigan CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5886800 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature