The Assessment of Written Phrasal Constructs and Grammar of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students with Varying Expressive Language Abilities

Table 3

Means (M) and standard errors (SE) for word efficiency ratio (WER) at the beginning, middle, and end of the year by language groups.

		WER I			WER II			WER III
		BEG	MID	END	BEG	MID	END	BEG	MID	END
English	M	0.17	0.21	0.21	0.61	0.71	0.69	0.77	0.84	0.86
	SE	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.08	0.05	0.06	0.05	0.03	0.04
Bilingual	M	0.26	0.23	0.35	0.71	0.79	0.77	0.82	0.92	0.89
	SE	0.05	0.06	0.05	0.07	0.02	0.05	0.05	0.03	0.03
LDL	M	0.01	0.03	0.05	0.13	0.14	0.26	0.22	0.32	0.53
	SE	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.07	0.06	0.07	0.11	0.06	0.09
Total	M	0.16	0.17	0.21	0.53	0.60	0.61	0.65	0.74	0.79
	SE	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.06	0.06	0.05	0.06	0.05	0.04