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A study on the hearing impaired college students’ Type-Token Ratio

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2011, 12(4), pp.417-428
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

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ABSTRACT

This study is about the features of hearing impaired college students’ sentence making, which are analyzed by TTR(Type Token Ratio). These features were compared to find out the differences between regular school graduates and special school graduates. As a result, there are nine regular school graduates and nine special graduates on this study. Among the sentences made by the eighteen college students, ninety sentences were chosen to be analyzed. The result of this study is summarized as follows:Firstly, students who graduated from regular schools showed 1372 NTW(Number of Total Words) and 833 NDW(Number of Different Words). Students who graduated from special schools showed 1,312 NTW and 713 NDW. After statistical analysis, there is no significant difference between the two graduates in the NTW, NDW and TTR(Type-Token Ratio). This means that hearing impaired college students’ TTR and other related features are not affected in the spoken-language environment of regular school or the sign-language environment of special schools. Secondly, when compared to the previous study of regular secondary school students, the hearing impaired college students’ NTW and NDW are extremely low. However, there is no significant difference in TTR. This shows that hearing impaired college students have a difficulty in language acquirement, but their language usage doesn’t differ greatly from that of the regular school students. Limitations and suggestions for future study are discussed.

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