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The Language-Learning Situation of Deaf Students.
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Swisher, M. Virginia – TESOL Quarterly, 1989
The challenges faced by deaf students learning English are very different from those of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students. These differences include the amount of linguistic input, motivation, language attitudes, and the use of a visual-spatial language. (38 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cultural Influences, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Gender and the Perceived Expertness of the Speaker as Factors in ESL Listening Recall.
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Markham, Paul L. – TESOL Quarterly, 1988
Advanced (N=45) and intermediate (N=53) English as a second language (ESL) students' recall of a speaker's orally presented material indicated that student proficiency level, speaker gender, perceived expertness of speaker, and passage condition affected students' recall ability. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Proficiency
On the Adult's Ability to Acquire Phonology.
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Neufeld, Gerald G. – TESOL Quarterly, 1980
Native English-speaking advanced French students' ability to match the perceptive performance of native-speaking Francophones was investigated. The results suggest that linguistic competence may be based on perception and production and that biological constraints in adult language learning may be a psychomotor rather than a psycholinguistic…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, French