ERIC Number: EJ1465648
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Apr
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-1081-4159
EISSN: EISSN-1465-7325
Available Date: 2024-11-05
DHH and L2 College Students' Knowledge of English Resultatives and Depictives
Ronald R. Kelly1; Gerald P. Berent1; Erin Finton1; Tanya Schueler-Choukairi2; Stanley Van Horn2; Zhong Chen3; Kimberly Persky4; Susan Post Rizzo1; Kathryn L. Schmitz1
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, v30 n2 p226-233 2025
College-level deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students and hearing students of English as a Second Language (L2) along with hearing native speakers (NS) of English were assessed in their knowledge of English resultative and depictive sentences. In "Kevin wiped the table clean," the resultative phrase "clean" indicates that the table became clean as a result of Kevin wiping it. In "Megan drove the car drunk," the depictive phrase "drunk" describes Megan's state throughout the entire event of driving. Findings of a sentence-acceptability rating scale task revealed higher performance by the NS group compared to the DHH and L2 groups, whose near-equivalent performance improved with increasing overall English proficiency. Participants exhibited higher performance on active, passive, and unaccusative resultative sentences than on ungrammatical unergative resultatives and higher performance on grammatical than ungrammatical depictive sentence types. These findings contribute new insights into the comparative study of English acquisition by DHH and L2 learners.
Descriptors: Deafness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Hard of Hearing, College Students, Native Speakers, Student Characteristics, Sentence Structure, Grammar, Comparative Analysis, Language Proficiency, Student Improvement, Student Evaluation
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States; 2English Language Center, Rochester Institute of Technology, One Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, New York 14623, United States; 3College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States; 4Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program, Earle B. Wood Middle School, Rockville, MD United States