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Emmorey, Karen; Petrich, Jennifer A. F. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2012
Two lexical decision experiments are reported that investigate whether the same segmentation strategies are used for reading printed English words and fingerspelled words (in American Sign Language). Experiment 1 revealed that both deaf and hearing readers performed better when written words were segmented with respect to an orthographically…
Descriptors: Deafness, Adults, Language Processing, Written Language
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Morariu, Janis A.; Bruning, Roger H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
Two experiments were conducted on the influence of language mode (print or sign) and syntax (English or American Sign Language) on recall, preference, and comprehension. Prelingual deaf individuals' visual orientation produced a sign-based encoding system that responded to American Sign Language as a familiar language. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cognitive Processes, Deafness, Encoding (Psychology)
Labarca, Angela, Ed.; Bailey, Leslie M., Ed. – 1990
Papers from the symposium on applied linguistics include: "Roles in the Foreign Language Classroom" (Robert J. DiPietro); "The Importance of Native Language in Light of Second-Language Studies" (Alexander Z. Guiora); "A Model of L2 Text Reconstruction: The Recall of Literary Text by Learners of German" (Elizabeth B.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries