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

Table 4

Means and standard deviations for average T-units per sample and phrasal errors (PEs) as a percentage of T-unit for the beginning, middle, and end of the year writing samples by language groups.

	Average T-unit			Average # of PE per T-units
	BEG	MID	END	BEG	MID	END
Language group
English	13 (13)	12 (8)	18 (10)	4.4% (5.2%)	2.8% (6.5%)	1.2% (2.9%)
Bilingual	27 (12)	20 (14)	42 (26)	2% (3.2%)	0.7% (2%)	0% (0%)
LDL	3 (2)	15 (10)	9 (3)	21.9% (36.8%)	14.9% (19.3%)	14% (22.7%)
Total	15 (14)	16 (11)	23 (21)	7.9% (19.3%)	5.0% (11.5%)	4.0% (12.2%)