The Comprehension of Metaphorical Uses of English by Deaf Children. Technical Report No. 184 [electronic resource] / Asghar Iran-Nejad and Others.

The results of two experiments on understanding metaphors were found to be incompatible with the popular view that deaf children have particular problems in understanding metaphorical uses of natural language. Profoundly deaf children were presented with several short stories and were instructed to...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Iran-Nejad, Asghar
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980.
Subjects:	Deafness. Difficulty Level. Elementary Secondary Education. Language Acquisition. Language Handicaps. Language Styles. Metaphors. Reading Comprehension. Reading Research.