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ERIC Number: EJ1329059
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 38
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ISSN: ISSN-0302-1475
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University American Sign Language Learners: Self-Awareness and Error Analysis within a Narrative Context
Beal, Jennifer S.
Sign Language Studies, v22 n2 p195-232 Win 2022
Second-language learners of American Sign Language (ASL) often struggle in the acquisition of more complex ASL aspects, such as role shift, constructed action, and eye gaze to represent characters and their actions with narratives. These learners also often overestimate their ASL skill level. This study investigated errors in second modality, second language (M2L2) university learners' ASL narrative retellings through rating comparisons (i.e., agreements and disagreements) between learners themselves and their instructor. Learners engaged in repeated viewings of ASL models of two Signing Naturally stories, "Timber" and "Gum," paired with instructor analysis, modeling, and feedback on learners' productions within a sociocultural framework. Learners' self-evaluations were compared to instructor evaluations using an itemized list of narrative episode details and options for how they were produced to identify where these evaluations were in agreement or not. Overall agreement was high (i.e., M = 92%), however, agreement across specific ASL aspects, including role shift, constructed action, and accurate sign production, varied to a greater extent (i.e., 89-94%). Two types of disagreements occurred: those in which learners rated a detail as absent while the instructor rated it as present, and those in which learners rated a detail as present while
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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