ERIC Number: EJ1071357
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
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Grammar Structures and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: A Review of Past Performance and a Report of New Findings
Cannon, Joanna E.; Kirby, Susannah
American Annals of the Deaf, v158 n3 p292-310 2013
Results of a study are presented that suggest the grammatical structures of English some deaf and hard of hearing students struggle to acquire. A review of the literature from the past 40 years is presented, exploring particular lexical and morphosyntactic areas in which deaf and hard of hearing children have traditionally exhibited difficulty. Twenty-six participants from an urban day school for the deaf used the LanguageLinks software, produced by Laureate Learning Systems, for 10 minutes daily for 9 weeks. The descriptive analysis of the results expands on findings reported by Cannon, Easterbrooks, Gagne, and Beal-Alvarez (2011). The results indicated that many participants struggled with regular noun singular/plural; accusative first- and second-person singular; noun/verb agreement copular "be"; accusative third-person number/gender; locative pronominals; auxiliary "be"/regular past "-ed;" and prenominal determiners plural.
Descriptors: Grammar, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Morphemes, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, English, Difficulty Level, Morphology (Languages), Urban Schools, Day Schools, Nouns, Verbs, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, Age Differences, Reading Skills, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Literature Reviews
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