Original scientific paper
Present tense skills in hearing impaired secondary school students
Renata Mohr
; Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Sandra Bradarić Jončić
; Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
The aim of this research was to examine verb morphology skills (present tense use) in Croatian language in hearing impaired secondary school students. Forty one hearing impaired students participated in the investigation (deaf with classical hearing aids, deaf with cochlear implants and hard of hearing students). The average achievement on the present tense skills test was 59%. Examinees achieved best results with ATI-am, ITI-im and JETI-im verb types, and worst results with NUTI-em and VATI-jem verb types. Errors they made reflect infection rules of their „preferred“ verb types. They achieved poorest results with III person plural, followed by II person plural, whereas the best results they achieved with I person singular. Hard of hearing students achieved better results than respondents with CI. Deaf respondents with classical hearing aids didn't achieve worse results neither than respondents with cochlear implants, nor than hard of hearing respondents. As expected, hearing impaired students attending regular secondary schools achieved better results than students attending a special secondary school. Respondents having deaf family members didn't achieve better results than those without them.
Keywords
hearing impairment; deafness; hard of hearing; cochlear implant; linguistic skills; verb morphology; mainstreaming; present tense skills; Croatian language
Hrčak ID:
45639
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Publication date:
3.11.2009.
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