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Researching Deaf Children’s Literacy Prof Terezinha Nunes Deborah Evans Danny Bell Addy Gardner Dr Diana Burman University of Oxford Winner of the 2006 Michael Young Research Prize ESRC Research Methods Festival St Catherine’s College, Oxford Thursday 3 rd July 2008
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Page 1: Researching Deaf Children’s Literacy Prof Terezinha Nunes Deborah Evans Danny Bell Addy Gardner Dr Diana Burman University of Oxford Winner of the 2006.

Researching Deaf Children’s Literacy

Prof Terezinha NunesDeborah Evans

Danny Bell

Addy Gardner

Dr Diana BurmanUniversity of OxfordWinner of the 2006 Michael Young Research Prize

ESRC Research Methods FestivalSt Catherine’s College, Oxford

Thursday 3rd July 2008

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Deafness

One in 1,000 babies born in the UK each year is deaf

Only 2% of deaf school leavers are able to read at their appropriate age level

98% leave school functionally illiterate

WHY?

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Literacy Learning

Writing is the written form of the spoken word

Congenitally deaf children have never accurately heard words spoken

Therefore they are unable to think in words in their head

Therefore deaf children find reading and writing very challenging

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National Curriculum No writing assessments existWriting Assessment for measuring deaf BSL usersLevel 1. early attempts at English

literacy. Pupils’ writing

communicates meaning through simple words and phrases.

In their reading of their writing, pupils begin to show awareness of how full stops are used.

Letters are usually clearly shaped and correctly orientated.

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The Problem

Criteria used to measure writing progress in hearing children are inadequate for many deaf children.

Assessments for writing samples of hearing children start at a level in advance of writing samples of many deaf children

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Aims To develop a teaching programme for deaf

primary school children to improve their literacy

To devise literacy assessments

1. To monitor their progress in literacy

2. To provide a framework for teachers

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Grammatical and morphological differences between BSL and English

There is not always a one to one correspondence between a word and a sign (e.g. ‘up until now’).

Sentence structures vary (e.g. boy play where?). BSL expresses interrogative and negative through

non-manual features. BSL does not use tenses to denote time. Plurality in BSL is denoted by quantity; the noun

remains the same. BSL does not contain many function or content words

– to/at; is/was; nor the definite or indefinite article – the/a.

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Fingerspelling

Fingerspelling is where each alphabetic letter is represented by a hand and finger configuration

It has been developed by hearing educators in an attempt to bridge sign-language with written language

It has to be taught to deaf children as a pre-curser to literacy

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is important for literacy learning, but so are

Morphemes these are units of meaning rather than units of

sound Some spellings appear irregular from their letter

sounds, but are regular in their units of meaning

magician = magic + ian

Phonological awareness

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Morphemes in English Morphemes have a fixed spelling Morphemes are related to grammar

‘er’ is used to make person words from verbs (read-reader) ‘ian’ is used to make person words from nouns (magic-

magician)

Analyzing words into morphemes helps children break long words into smaller units, accessible to visual coding - unbreakable = unbreakable

Visual coding is used more by deaf than hearing children to remember spellings of words

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Question 1

Are deaf children using morphemes?

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Spelling assessment: Pretest example

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Hypothesis

If taught, deaf children could learn to use morphemes to spell English words,

to decode English words in reading, and

to help them plan writing because of the important connections between morphemes and English grammar.

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The Teaching Programme targeted morphemes from 11 English classifications:

1. Plurals ‘s’ ‘windows’ 2 .Regular past tense ‘-ed’ ‘jumped’ 3. 3rd person singular ‘Now Sophie walks’ 4. Person words ‘-er’ ‘teacher’ 5. Person words ‘-ist’ ‘artist’

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Targeted morphemes (contd.)

6. Person words ‘-ian’ ‘magician’

7. Suffixes ‘-ful’ ‘painful’

8. ‘-less’ ‘painless’

9. ‘-ment’ ‘government’

10. ‘-ion’ ‘competition’

11. ‘-ness’ ‘tiredness’

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1. Singular and Plural

BSL = 1 dog; 4 dog

English = 1 dog; 4 dogs

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?6 buns1 bun

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?1 flower 3 flowers

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mats

tie

spoons

spoon

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Tense to denote time -2. Regular past tense3. Third person singular

English =I walk now I walked yesterday

BSL = I walk now I walk yesterday

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Last week she danced.

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Now she d……….. .dances.

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Now granny cooks.

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Last night granny c……….. .cooked.

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Third Person Singular and Regular Past Tense Bingo Game

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Regular past tense: Story Book

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Irregular Verbs

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Reported speech

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Name the person who……

4. ‘-er’5. ‘-ist’6. ‘-ian’

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A person who reads is A person who reads is aa

er ist ian

readreaderer

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artart istister ist ian

A person who A person who makes art is anmakes art is an

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magicmagicianian

er ist ian

A person who makes magic A person who makes magic is ais a

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artist O

florist Xmagician O

teacher Xelectrician O

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artist O florist X

magician Oteacher X

electrician O

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Grace ..……. school.likes

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On Tuesday Grace …………. in her science book. She likes science and she’s a good ……………….

writes

scientist/writer.

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This is Sir Isaac Newton. He was a scientist and a mathematician.

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He liked science…..

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…..and he liked mathematics.

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Suffixes that change word meanings in predictable ways:

7. ‘-ful’8. ‘-less’

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He had a cut. He was in pain. The cut was pain___.painful.

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Then the cut got better. He had no pain. The cut was pain____.painless.

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She ran fast; She arrived breathless.

The puppy was playful.

© Diana Burman & Addy Gardner

The magician was wonderful.

The cut was painful.

Broken glass can be harmful.

Tom made lots of mistakes; he was careless.

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Suffixes 9. ‘-ment’10. ‘-ion’11. ‘-ness’

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We must look after our environment

We vote for people to govern

We measure rooms

The grey paving stones

The teacher said, “Punctuate this sentence”

The cat ate to his satisfaction

with the correct punctuation.

to find out the exact measurement.

he went to sleep satisfied.

those people form our government.

made a grey pavement.

by reducing pollution.

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Assessments

Spelling Reading Writing

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1. These are w……….......

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3. Yesterday this man j………… over the babies.

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Post-test results of Spelling with Suffixes controlling for age, IQ and pre-test scores (n=132)

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Evidence of increased use of morphemes in spelling

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2

4

6

8

10

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14

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Comparison Group Intervention Group

Score in spelling suffixes

Pre-test

Post-test

Effect size: 0.49

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Post-test Sample (Score 14; Max 14)

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Post-test results of Reading Comprehension controlling for age, IQ and pre-test scores

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Writing AssessmentInitially 35 children were invited to write about the same 4-picture sequence story at pre-test and post-test.

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Scoring

Six experienced teachers of the deaf ranked the deaf children’s writing productions into 5 bands.

These represented knowledge of written English - Band ‘E’ (the weakest) to Band ‘A’ (the strongest).

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Band ‘E’ examples(8 boys; 2 girls)

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Band E (Children may not understand that writing is a form of

communication based on an oral/aural communication system)

Demonstrate an ability to: Place words the correct way up in order to copy-write Write some alphabetic letters in sequence to resemble

words Memorise some fingerspelling configurations and their

corresponding written letter Produced letter sequences for isolated words, which

may/may not be relevant

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Band ‘D’ examples (4 boys; 3 girls)

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Band ‘C’ examples(5 boys; 1 girl)

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Band D & Band C

Appear to understand that writing is a communication system

Produce some letter sequences to form relevant words, with some obscure spellings

Write words in BSL order, with emerging English syntax

Band C Place words in a more coherent order with

greater awareness of English syntax

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Band ‘B’ examples (3 boys; 2 girls)

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Band ‘A’ examples(1 boy; 3 girls)

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Band B and Band ABand B Transcribe BSL into English Follow through characterisation with an action

(e.g. ‘he pack a clohes for to go to hoilday’ / ‘he finish he carried bag’)

Band A Produce sufficient English syntax for coherent

communication

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The correlations between the six teachers scores were high and significant (between r = 0.57 and r = 0.94, p<0.001; n = 32).

These Bands of writing profiles therefore provide a reliable instrument that can be used by teachers of the deaf for both assessment and progression in teaching.

Reliability

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A further study involved supported by The Nuffield Foundation involved:

257 deaf children Spread across the UK

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Dissemination

Michael Young Prize 2006 BBC Woman’s Hour1. Raised awareness of the link between deaf

ness and literacy

2. Many private individuals and professionals in the UK contacted me seeking further details of the research

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Dissemination

Michael Young Prize 2006 National Conferences1. Teachers of the Deaf

2. Parents of deaf children

3. Professionals

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Dissemination

Michael Young Prize 2006 National Conferences

Edinburgh Troon

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National Conferences (contd.)

Manchester Coventry

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National Conferences (contd.)

Nottingham Reading

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National Conferences (contd.)

Oxford London

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Dissemination

Michael Young Prize 2006

International Conferences

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International Conferences

Pittsburgh, USA.American and Canadian Teachers of the Deaf

Annual Conference

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International Conferences

Hobart, Tasmania.Annual Conference for Teachers of the Deaf

from Australia and New Zealand

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Family–School Partnership

to promote

Deaf Children’s Literacy

Supported by

National Deaf Children’s Society

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Teaching materials and assessments are

available at

www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/cl/index.php