Kimberly Wolbers|Hannah M. Dostal|Lisa M. Bowers
"I Was Born Full Deaf." Written Language Outcomes After 1 Year of Strategic and Interactive Writing Instruction
University of Tennessee at Knoxville|University of Tennessee at Knoxville|University of Tennessee at Knoxville
nonstandard grammatical forms often present writing deaf students rarely ever seen writing hearing students implementation strategic interactive writing instruction siwi previous studies students demonstrated significant gains highlevel writing skills eg text structure also made gains english grammar skills 1year study expands prior research longitudinally examining written language growth ie writing length sentence complexity sentence awareness function words 29 deaf middleschool students repeatedmeasures analysis variance betweensubjects variable literacy achievement level used examine gains time interventions efficacy used students various literacy levels students whether high low achieving demonstrated statistically significant gains writing length sentence complexity sentence awareness subordinate clauses found area difficulty follow strategies suggested analysis function word data specifically prepositions articles revealed different patterns written language growth language group eg american sign language users oral students users englishbased sign