A language-independent measure of communicative competence for deaf adolescents and adults

Autor/a: LOU, M.; FISCHER, S.; WOODWARD, J.
Año: 1987
Editorial: Sign Language Studies, nº 57 (1987) pp. 353-370
Tipo de código: Copyright
Soporte: Digital

Temas

Educación » Adquisición y desarrollo del lenguaje

Detalles

We present a conversation/interview measure for evaluating the communicative competence of deaf adolescents and adults. We also describe (a) the rationale behind its development; (b) its independence by design, of the subject's language variety, channel or intemingling of the two; and (c) its use in a study of 40 deaf adolescents, the findings of which support the reliability and validity of this "language-fair" measure of communicative competence.