DEAF PUPIL'S ABILITY TO USE AUXILIARY WORDS AND VERBS

Use of Films in Dynamic Assessment and the Writing Ability of Iranian Deaf Children

The purpose of this study was to explore whether film-based Dynamic Assessment (DA) could affect English writing of Iranian deaf children. Ten students studying in a school for the deaf took part in the study. The participants’ writing ability was measured prior to the treatment and the errors which were identified. A series of meditating activities were designed and implemented during a three-...

Learning English Auxiliary Modal Verbs by Iranian Children

Modal verbs in English are challenging to learn by speakers of other languages. The purpose of thiswas to shed light on the use of gesture in learning English modal verbs by Persian-speaking children.To achieve this, 60 elementary Iranian learners, studying at some institutes in Karaj took part in thisstudy. The participants were randomly put into one experimental group and one control group. T...

[Reading characteristics of deaf and hard-of-hearing pupils].

BACKGROUND/AIM Speech motor mechanisms play a crucial role in the process of demutization, due to the fact that they cover all the elements of the successive development of spech production movements leading to speech formation (so-called kinesthesia in speach). The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of perceptual motor actions on the cognitive process of reading in 130 students in re...

Prelingually Deaf Pupils and Dutch Syntax: a Receptive Language Study

Auxiliary Verbs and Verbal Chains in European Portuguese

This paper describes auxiliary verb constructions in European Portuguese in view of their correct parsing in a fully integrated NLP chain. The paper provides data on these constructions over a large-sized corpus and evaluates the parsing system performance.