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ASL Phonological Fluency: How Do Deaf Signers Retrieve and Produce Signs?
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Beal, Jennifer S.; Bowman, Sarah – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2023
Researchers have focused on how deaf signing children acquire and use American Sign Language (ASL). One sub-skill of ASL proficiency is ASL phonology. This includes the ability to isolate and manipulate parameters within signs (i.e., handshape, location, and movement). Expressively, signed language phonological fluency tasks have investigated…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Proficiency, Phonology, Language Skills
Development, Reliability, and Concurrent Validity of the American Sign Language Version of the Computerized Revised Token Test
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Emily B. Goldberg; Sheila R. Pratt; Malcolm R. McNeil; Neil Szuminsky; Kenneth DeHaan; Leslie Q. Zhen – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: The present study assessed the test-retest reliability of the American Sign Language (ASL) version of the Computerized Revised Token Test (CRTT-ASL) and compared the differences and similarities between ASL and English reading by Deaf and hearing users of ASL. Method: Creation of the CRTT-ASL involved filming, editing, and validating CRTT…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Reliability, Validity, Test Construction
Effects of Video Reversal on Gaze Patterns during Signed Narrative Comprehension
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Bosworth, Rain; Stone, Adam; Hwang, So-One – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
Language knowledge, age of acquisition (AoA), and stimulus intelligibility all affect gaze behavior for reading print, but it is unknown how these factors affect "sign-watching" among signers. This study investigated how these factors affect gaze behavior during sign language comprehension in 52 adult signers who acquired American Sign…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Eye Movements, Behavior Patterns, American Sign Language
Validity of the American Sign Language Discrimination Test
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Bochner, Joseph H.; Samar, Vincent J.; Hauser, Peter C.; Garrison, Wayne M.; Searls, J. Matt; Sanders, Cynthia A. – Language Testing, 2016
American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the most commonly taught languages in North America. Yet, few assessment instruments for ASL proficiency have been developed, none of which have adequately demonstrated validity. We propose that the American Sign Language Discrimination Test (ASL-DT), a recently developed measure of learners' ability to…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Test Validity, Language Proficiency, Phonological Awareness
Bilingualism and Attention: A Study of Balanced and Unbalanced Bilingual Deaf Users of American Sign Language and English
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Kushalnagar, Poorna; Hannay, H. Julia; Hernandez, Arturo E. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2010
Early deafness is thought to affect low-level sensorimotor processing such as selective attention, whereas bilingualism is thought to be strongly associated with higher order cognitive processing such as attention switching under cognitive load. This study explores the effects of bimodal-bilingualism (in American Sign Language and written English)…
Descriptors: Deafness, Attention, English, Language Acquisition
American Sign Language Syntactic and Narrative Comprehension in Skilled and Less Skilled Readers: Bilingual and Bimodal Evidence for the Linguistic Basis of Reading
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Chamberlain, Charlene; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
We tested the hypothesis that syntactic and narrative comprehension of a natural sign language can serve as the linguistic basis for skilled reading. Thirty-one adults who were deaf from birth and used American Sign Language (ASL) were classified as skilled or less skilled readers using an eighth-grade criterion. Proficiency with ASL syntax, and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Oral Language, Deafness, Intelligence Quotient