Teacher-Assessed Linguistic and Social Abilities in Chinese Children's Reading Acquisition: A Longitudinal Study

Haomin Zhang1, Yue Jiang1, Zhaohan Xu2

  • 1The Psycholinguistics Lab, School of Foreign Languages, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

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