Assessing Sign Language Acquisition: Development of a NGT sentence repetition task for DHH children of 6- 10 years old.
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2022-12-15
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For this master thesis I constructed a pilot version of an NGT sentence repetition task for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children between 6–10 years old, the ‘NGT-SRT-kids’. The pilot version exists of 32 sentences divided in three complexity levels. Complexity levels are defined by number of manual signs per sentence, type of sentence, and use of non-manual features. The results of the pilot study were analysed. The quantitative results from this pilot indicate the SRT-NGT-kids does discriminate between the three complexity levels. The qualitative analysis showed it is very important to take both manual and non-manual elements into account when scoring the SRT-NGT-kids. Mandatory elements and accepted variations in the sentence repetitions are described and discussed. The current SRT-NGT-kids has not reached its final version. A second round of evaluating and discussing the test sentences must be done with, subsequently, a second, more extensive pilot.
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