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Li, Degao; Wang, Shaai; Zhang, Fan; Zhu, Li; Wang, Tao; Wang, Xiaolu – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2019
Irony comprehension can be a kind of challenge to those who are relatively less skillful in reading. To examine how DHH college students (DCSs) were different from hearing college students (HCSs) in the reading of ironic discourses, we conducted two experiments in the self-paced reading task. In Experiment 1, the statement was either literally…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, College Students, Figurative Language
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Albertini, John A.; Marschark, Marc; Kincheloe, Pamela J. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2016
Research in discourse reveals numerous cognitive connections between reading and writing. Rather than one being the inverse of the other, there are parallels and interactions between them. To understand the variables and possible connections in the reading and writing of adult deaf students, we manipulated writing conditions and reading texts.…
Descriptors: Deafness, College Students, Reading Achievement, Reading Ability
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Kelly, Ronald R.; Berent, Gerald P. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2011
This research contrasted deaf and hearing students' interpretive knowledge of English sentences containing numeral quantifier phrases and indefinite noun phrases. A multiple-interpretation picture task methodology was used to assess 305 participants' judgments of the compatibility of sentence meanings with depicted discourse contexts.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Deafness, English