scholarly journals Validity evidence for a sentence repetition test of Swiss German Sign Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-434
Author(s):  
Tobias Haug ◽  
Aaron Olaf Batty ◽  
Martin Venetz ◽  
Christa Notter ◽  
Simone Girard-Groeber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
School Context ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Sentence Repetition ◽  
Cognitive Framework ◽  
Deaf Adults ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
German Sign Language

In this study we seek evidence of validity according to the socio-cognitive framework (Weir, 2005) for a new sentence repetition test (SRT) for young Deaf L1 Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS) users. SRTs have been developed for various purposes for both spoken and sign languages to assess language development in children. In order to address the need for tests to assess the grammatical development of Deaf L1 DSGS users in a school context, we developed an SRT. The test targets young learners aged 6–17 years, and we administered it to 46 Deaf students aged 6.92–17.33 ( M = 11.17) years. In addition to the young learner data, we collected data from Deaf adults ( N = 14) and from a sub-sample of the children ( n = 19) who also took a test of DSGS narrative comprehension, serving as a criterion measure. We analyzed the data with many-facet Rasch modeling, regression analysis, and analysis of covariance. The results show evidence of scoring, criterion, and context validity, suggesting the suitability of the SRT for the intended purpose, and will inform the revision of the test for future use as an instrument to assess the sign language development of Deaf children.

Swiss German Sign Language Sentence Repetition Test

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Haug ◽  
Aaron Olaf Batty ◽  
Martin Venetz ◽  
Christa Notter ◽  
Simone Girard-Groeber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Sentence Repetition ◽  
German Sign Language

scholarly journals Sign language learning and assessment in German Switzerland: Exploring the potential of vocabulary size tests for Swiss German Sign Language

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-40
Author(s):  
Tobias Haug ◽  
Sarah Ebling ◽  
Penny Boyes Braem ◽  
Katja Tissi ◽  
Sandra Sidler-Miserez
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
German Sign Language

Narrative competences of Deaf children in German Sign Language

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Becker
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Narrative Skills ◽  
Deaf Adults ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
German Sign Language

Hearing children acquire discourse competences like storytelling through everyday interaction and are systematically supported in this process by adults. In contrast, deaf children in Germany often lack appropriate interlocutors with German Sign Language proficiency in family or school. The focus of our research is on narrative competences in deaf children and on the consequences of the lack of interlocutors on the acquisition of these competences. We carried out three studies to examine narrative skills of deaf children aged 8 to 17. We collected data from dyadic conversations with deaf adults and analyzed this data against the background of a cognitive approach to language acquisition and of conversation analysis. From a developmental perspective, our results indicate that the narrative competences of most of the tested non-native signing children have not developed as would be appropriate for their age. From an interactive perspective, deaf adults cooperate with the children in telling their stories by using different strategies.

A multimedia bilingual database for the lexicon of Swiss German Sign Language

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Boyes-Braem
Keyword(s):  
German Text ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Multimedia Database ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Base Form ◽  
German Sign Language

This multimedia database project is the first large-scale collection and description of the signs of Swiss German Sign Language (Deutschschweizerische Gebärdensprache, DSGS). The aim of the database is to gather linguistic information on the DSGS lexicon which can serve as a basis for future dictionaries and teaching materials, as well as function as a tool for linguistic research. For each lexical entry, there is information about all of the sign’s meanings, its morphological and syntactic characteristic, several categories of usage (geographical and generation variation, style, register) as well as example links to videotaped signed sentences. The information about each lexical item is represented in the database in several different forms: Video clips of the base form of the sign and of signed sentences in which it appears, line drawings, information checkboxes, form notation (HamNoSys and SignWriting), as well as German text.

Building a parallel corpus of German/Swiss German Sign Language train announcements

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ebling
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Statistical Machine Translation ◽  
Translation System ◽  
Notation System ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Machine Translation System ◽  
German Sign Language ◽  
Animation System

We present a parallel corpus of German/Swiss German Sign Language train announcements. The corpus is used in a statistical machine translation system that translates from German to Swiss German Sign Language. The output of the translation system is then passed on to an animation system, the result being a sign language avatar representation on a mobile phone. Building the parallel corpus consisted of four steps: translating the written German train announcements into Swiss German Sign Language glosses, signing the announcements in front of a camera on the basis of the gloss transcriptions, notating the signs in the video recordings in a form-based sign language notation system, and adding information about non-manual features. The resulting corpus contains 3,241 sentence pairs, which makes it a large parallel corpus involving sign language.

A multimedia bilingual database for the lexicon of Swiss German Sign Language

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Boyes-Braem
Keyword(s):  
German Text ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Multimedia Database ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Base Form ◽  
German Sign Language

This multimedia database project is the first large-scale collection and description of the signs of Swiss German Sign Language (Deutschschweizerische Gebärdensprache, DSGS). The aim of the database is to gather linguistic information on the DSGS lexicon which can serve as a basis for future dictionaries and teaching materials, as well as function as a tool for linguistic research. For each lexical entry, there is information about all of the sign’s meanings, its morphological and syntactic characteristic, several categories of usage (geographical and generation variation, style, register) as well as example links to videotaped signed sentences. The information about each lexical item is represented in the database in several different forms: Video clips of the base form of the sign and of signed sentences in which it appears, line drawings, information checkboxes, form notation (HamNoSys and SignWriting), as well as German text.

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