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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 18.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Linguist Phon. 2012 Aug;26(8):728–742. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2012.700679

Table VII.

N (percent) reaching each level of performance spring year 2.

<10% accuracy
Early emerging
Emerging
Mastery
HEC SEC HEC SEC HEC SEC HEC SEC
Present progressive –ing 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 4 (14%) 6 (32%) 24 (86%) 13 (68%)
Prepositions in and on 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 18 (100%) 12 (100%)
Plural –s 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (8%) 6 (22%) 2 (16%) 21 (78%) 10 (76%)
Irregular past tense 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 8 (32%) 3 (16%) 17 (68%) 16 (84%)
Possessive 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (25%) 1 (50%) 3 (75%) 1 (50%)
Uncontractible copula 2 (7%) 0 (0%) 1 (3%) 4 (20%) 16 (55%) 7 (35%) 10 (35%) 9 (45%)
Articles a and the 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 4 (12%) 7 (30%) 30 (88%) 16 (70%)
Past –ed 1 (10%) 0 (20%) 0 (10%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (20%) 8 (80%) 3 (60%)
Third person singular 0 (0%) 1 (6%) 5 (23%) 6 (38%) 11 (50%) 7 (44%) 6 (27%) 2 (12%)
Uncontractible auxiliary 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (20%) 3 (100%) 4 (80%) 0 (0%)
Contractible copula 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (3%) 0 (0%) 14 (38%) 12 (46%) 22 (59%) 14 (54%)
Irregular third person singular 1 (11%) 1 (11%) 3 (33%) 3 (33%) 5 (56%) 2 (22%) 0 (0%) 3 (34%)
Contractible auxiliary 0 (%) 1 (5%) 1 (3%) 0 (0%) 12 (35%) 7 (35%) 21 (62%) 12 (60%)