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Where "Sign Language Studies" Has Led Us in Forty Years: Opening High School and University Education for Deaf People in Viet Nam through Sign Language Analysis, Teaching, and Interpretation
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Woodward, James; Hoa, Nguyen Thi – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This paper discusses how the Nippon Foundation-funded project "Opening University Education to Deaf People in Viet Nam through Sign Language Analysis, Teaching, and Interpretation," also known as the Dong Nai Deaf Education Project, has been implemented through sign language studies from 2000 through 2012. This project has provided deaf…
Descriptors: Sign Language, High Schools, Deafness, Higher Education
Classroom Use of ASL by Teachers.
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Woodward, James; Allen, Thomas – Sign Language Studies, 1987
A survey indicated that out of 1,888 teachers of hearing-impaired students, 140 use American Sign Language (ASL) in their classrooms. Further investigation reduced this number to 25 who actually use ASL and 6 who probably do. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication Skills, Deafness, Finger Spelling
Attitudes Toward Deaf People on Providence Island
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Woodward, James – Sign Language Studies, 1978
Although most societies view deaf people as inferior to hearing people and often actively discriminate against deaf individuals and groups, the 3,000 hearing people on Providence Island come closer to an equal acceptance and treatment of deaf people than do those in other societies that have been studied. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Attitudes, Majority Attitudes, Research
Universal Constraints on Two-Finger Extension across Sign Languages.
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Woodward, James – Sign Language Studies, 1985
Examines the two-finger extension as a hand shape in sign language by analyzing data on 10 different sign languages. The analysis shows that a theory of marking can be developed for sign languages along the same lines as those used for spoken languages--only the particular physiology is different. (SED)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Data Analysis, Deafness, Language Research
The Selflessness of Providence Island Sign Language: Personal Pronoun Morphology.
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Woodward, James – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Discusses personal pronoun morphology in Providence Island Sign Language (PROVISL), specifically (1) indexing, (2) pronominalization, (3) person, (4) number, (5) gender, (6) inclusivity, and (7) case. Comparisons are made with other sign languages and spoken languages. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deafness, Grammar, Language Research
Two-to-One It Happens: Dynamic Phonology in Two Sign Languages
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Woodward, James; DeSantis, Susan – Sign Language Studies, 1977
The historically attested change of two-handed signs on the face to one-handed variants, which occurs in two historically related sign languages, French Sign Language and American Sign Language, is used to test variation theory. The results of the study support viewing languages in a dynamic framework. (AMH)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness, Language Acquisition
Two to One It Happens.
Woodward, James; De Santis, Susan – 1975
Recent research in sociolinguistics has demonstrated the need for looking at language in a dynamic framework, that is, for not imposing the traditional synchronic-diachronic dichotomy on linguistic studies. Support for the dynamic framework has been given from various oral languages. This paper attempts to test variation theory with historically…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Diachronic Linguistics, Finger Spelling
Teacher Characteristics and the Degree to which Teachers Incorporate Features of English in Their Sign Communication with Hearing Impaired Students.
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Allen, Thomas E.; Woodward, James – American Annals of the Deaf, 1987
The analysis of questionnaire responses of 888 teachers of the hearing impaired found that deaf teachers, teachers with less than six years of experience, and junior high and high school teachers reported incorporating fewer English grammatical features in their sign communication than other teachers. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, English, Grammar
Quelques aspects sociolinguistiques des langues des signes americaine et francaise (Sociolinguistic Aspects of American and French Sign Language).
Woodward, James – Langages, 1979
Based on experimental research, examines the relationship between American Sign Language and French Sign Language, and sociolinguistic variation in both sign languages. (AM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Diachronic Linguistics, Diglossia
Some Handy New Ideas on Pidgins and Creoles: Pidgin Sign Languages.
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Woodward, James; Markowicz, Harry – 1975
The study of pidgin and creole languages, usually emphasizing oral language codes, offers insights into language, especially as an observably dynamic phenomenon. However, channel is highly influential on the surface form of the language code. Pidgin sign language codes, not dependent on oral language codes, can serve as an ideal forum for the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Creoles, Deafness, Finger Spelling