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A longitudinal study was carried out to study various growth patterns in the early learning of the Chinese language. We investigate different developmental trajectories during early learning stages of Chinese linguistic abilities. Cognitive development of Chinese reading process, i.e., phonemic/tonic awareness and word recognition can be thus revealed. Research studies have shown that it is possible to identify subgroups with different growth patterns in the early learning of the English language using mixture modeling of latent growth trajectories. We demonstrate how various subgroups with different growth patterns can be identified successfully by using mixture latent growth curve (MLGC) models. To learn about how an early growth process relates to a later growth process will be invaluable in building developmental and learning theories that can benefit proper linguistics instructions and formatting effective intervention programs. Empirical data were collected from local elementary schools in Taiwan.
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Yang, CC., Yang, CC. (2003). Longitudinal Study of Early Chinese Linguistics Growth: Revealing Sequential Relations of Linguistic Antecedents and Consequences. In: Yanai, H., Okada, A., Shigemasu, K., Kano, Y., Meulman, J.J. (eds) New Developments in Psychometrics. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66996-8_10
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