title: Classroom assessment of the use of compact language drills: a technique borrowed from foreign language teaching.
abstract: Many deaf children have great difficulty learning how to use irregular English verbs. This research study seeks to exemplify how a single-case, ABA design can be used by classroom teachers in making a determination about the usefulness of classroom teaching strategies, and in the case of this study, to explore the use of compact language drills (CLDs) as a technique for helping a deaf child improve his ability to use 4 irregular verbs. The CLDs were conducted 5-10 minutes each day for five weeks at the close of school. The drills engaged the child in immediate recall of simple sentences loaded with semantic/syntactic clues which signalled the need for a past, present or future irregular verb within the target sentence. The results suggest that CLDs, when used systematically, can significantly improve a child's ability to use irregular verbs correctly, both immediately following treatment, and across time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Texas Woman's University, Denton, USA.
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Tripoli
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003638:Deafness; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D014706:Verbal Learning