Online Discussion on American Sign Language (ASL) and Teaching ASL

Activity 6.5 Online Discussion
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Activity 6.5 Online Discussion
1 Is the original research still relevant to the concerns and issues of the field?
The article remains relevant to the concerns and issues related to American Sign Language (ASL) and teaching ASL. The study results indicate that automatic speech recognition (ASR) could improve pronunciation and offer lessons in a foreign language (FL). The study met the replication threshold in this capacity as it contributed new evidence on the subject matter (Golonka et al., 2014).
2 Have researchers called for replications of certain studies?
The researchers called for the replication of specific studies. They called for the next research to address strategies to optimize L2 learning in two different but related disciplines. The first area would entail affordances that tools provide by applying basic canons of learning from cognitive psychology and SLA. The second stage should examine the particular attributes of technologies that might have differential implications on long-term storage in retention and memory (Golonka et al., 2014).
3 What are the strengths and weaknesses of the study?
The weakness of this article is that it emphasized technologies that offered certain efficacy measures, providing a partial understanding ...