First graders taught sight words with ASL signs achieved higher posttest accuracy than students taught without ASL¶
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q2 i? Group B students taught the ASL sign with each sight word read 96% of required words correctly on the posttest, compared with 76% for Group A students taught without ASL. → Sherman 2011
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Sherman 2011¶
Sherman, J. (2011). Signing for Success: Using American Sign Language to Learn Sight Vocabulary. SRATE Journal, 20(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ959527
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Small modified inquiry comparison in a Professional Development School: eleven struggling first graders randomly divided into Group A (five students, no ASL) and Group B (six students, with ASL), one word per week for five weeks. The article reports "76% accuracy rate" for Group A and 96% for Group B; no effect size or significance test is printed.
"Group A students learned their words using just the flashcards and reading the words in context with a 76% accuracy rate."
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Related Claims¶
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- Interns observed extremely high enthusiasm for ASL vocabulary learning, including home practice and increased self-confidence — related
- All eleven participating first graders gained sight vocabulary, with 89% knowing four or all five taught words at posttest — related
- An ELL student spontaneously signed sight words when seeing them in context, which appeared to support word recognition — related
- ASL proficiency correlates positively with English reading comprehension among deaf adults — related
- Adult ASL-fluent participants significantly improved STEM test scores by about 22% after watching four-to-six-minute ASL video lessons — related
- Native signers of ASL show more proficient bilingual abilities than non-native signers — related
- At-risk first graders required an average of 5.65 exposures to master a high-frequency sight word in a daily timed reading activity — related
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