SAWC: The Rubric of Chinese Deaf Students’ Writing Ability

Yachong Cui

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SAWC: The Rubric of Chinese Deaf Students’ Writing Ability

Yachong Cui

Published in International Journal of Elementary Education (Volume 11, Issue 4)

Received: 22 June 2022 Accepted: 2 September 2022 Published: 4 November 2022

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Writing ability measurement, as a significant part of language proficiency measurement, plays a decisive role in the language teaching of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students. The measurement of writing ability can assist teachers in accurately measuring DHH students' language proficiency and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching methods. We, however, have not yet formed a complete tool to measure Chinese DHH students’ writing ability. Considering the specificity of Chinese and the importance of measuring DHH students’ writing ability, the present study aims to develop a rubric of writing ability for Chinese DHH students from a pedagogical perspective by analysing the written language of Chinese DHH students. 46 essays, across three genres, were collected from 11 elementary-aged Chinese DHH students. The findings show that the Structural Analysis of Written Chinese (SAWC) rubric, which consists of the indices of measurement and the scoring criteria, is a valid measuring tool specifically designed for the written Chinese of DHH students. It takes the T-unit as the unit of measurement. To ensure the comprehensiveness and validity of the rubric, SAWC analysed the written Chinese language from three levels, including the number of perfect T-units, flawed T-units, and nonqualified word-strings, as well as the total number and mean number of words and characters in each type of unit. Level 1 analyses the perfect T-units in the written language of DHH students. Level 2 analyses the perfect T-units and flawed T-units in the written language. Level 3 analyses all the units of the written language, including perfect T-units, flawed T-units, and nonqualified word-strings. Because of the comprehensiveness, consistency, unlimitedness, and universality, the SAWC rubric can measure the writing ability of DHH students objectively and effectively.

Published in	International Journal of Elementary Education (Volume 11, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijeedu.20221104.11
Page(s)	84-91
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SAWC Rubric, DHH Students, Writing Ability, Chinese

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