Hearing L2 Sign Language Learners: How Do They Perform on ASL Phonological Fluency?
Hearing L2 Sign Language Learners: How Do They Perform on ASL Phonological Fluency?
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听力 L2 手语学习者：他们的 ASL 语音流畅程度如何？
DOI：
10.1353/sls.2018.0032
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Kia Faniel
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作者：
Jennifer S Beal;Kia Faniel
摘要：目前，研究人员和大学教授对听力正常的成人学习者是如何习得美国手语作为第二语言的证据有限。我们使用ASL语音手势生成任务来调查大学口译和聋人教育专业学生的流利性。在该任务中，被试在一分钟内产生与三个给定手形相关的手势。考生在他们的ASL IV课程结束时完成了这项任务；一年后，另一个小组也完成了第二次任务，以纵向比较他们的表现。我们调查了专业、年龄、签约年限、自我报告的美国手语使用时间和美国手语水平的自我评分对学习效果的影响。那些手语经验较少的学生的表现低于聋人高中学生(Beal-Alvarez和Figueroa 2017)和大学生(Morere，Witkin和Murphy 2012)，而那些具有三年以上ASL经验的学生的表现与聋人学生相似。纵向考生的平均表现增加了五个项目，尽管这并不显著。我们的发现表明，典型的听力大学ASL学习者需要多年的经验才能表现出与更熟练的聋人手语者相似的表现。
Abstract:Currently researchers and university professors have limited evidence related to how typically hearing adult learners acquire American Sign Language (ASL) as a second language. We investigated university interpreting and deaf education majors’ fluency using an ASL phonological sign generation task in which participants produce signs related to three given handshapes within one minute each. Candidates completed this task at the end of their ASL IV course; a subgroup also completed the task a second time one year later for a longitudinal comparison of their performance. We investigated the effects of major, age, years of signing experience, self-reported hours of ASL use, and self-rating of ASL proficiency. Those with less sign language experience performed lower than deaf high school (Beal-Alvarez and Figueroa 2017) and university students (Morere, Witkin, and Murphy 2012), while those with more than three years of ASL experience performed similarly to the deaf students. Longitudinal candidates’ mean performance increased by five items, although this was not significant. Our findings show that typically hearing university ASL learners require many years of experience to perform similarly to more proficient deaf signers.