Early Instruction of Object Complements to Hearing-Impaired College Students

A study of the relative difficulty of four grammatical components of object complements (complement markers, personal pronouns, tense inflection, and word order) indicated that tense marking was found to be the most difficult for hearing-impaired students. It is suggested that data on first and seco...

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Published inApplied Psycholinguistics Vol. 4; no. 4; p. 345
Main Authors Albertini, John A, Samar, Vincent J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 1983
Subjects
Cognitive Development
Comparative Analysis
Grammar
Hearing Impairments
Language Acquisition
Language Attitudes
Language Handicaps
Language Research
Language Tests
Second Language Learning
Syntax
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:A study of the relative difficulty of four grammatical components of object complements (complement markers, personal pronouns, tense inflection, and word order) indicated that tense marking was found to be the most difficult for hearing-impaired students. It is suggested that data on first and second language acquisition be considered when deciding on a sequence of instruction for hearing-impaired students. (SL)