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Download full textPetra M. Horn-Marsh; Adele Ann Eberwein; M. Diane Clark; Ashley Greene – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2023
This article describes how teaching deaf students to read has been challenging and contentious, yet, one crucial attribute to developing reading skills is early exposure to American Sign Language (ASL). ASL seemed to serve as a bridge to achieving English literacy and academic success partly because early use of ASL enables deaf students to…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Barriers, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Direct linkMoores, Donald F. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2018
Two hundred and fifty years ago, L'Epée and Heinicke were engaged in a disagreement over the role of signs in the education of deaf students, with L'Epée supporting both natural and methodical signs and Heinicke advocating for an oral method without a manual component. This was the beginning of the oral/manual controversy. This controversy set a…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Sustainability, Learning Processes, Deafness
Xu, Bo – English Language Teaching, 2018
New media is widely used in English teaching and learning, special education, in particular. In the new settings, hearing impaired students' learning features are individualized learning style, visual-based learning mode, weakness in understanding and laziness in learning. It is easy for hearing impaired students to learn English via micro course…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Liu, Hsiu Tan; Liu, Chun Jung; Andrews, Jean F. – Deafness and Education International, 2014
We describe the literacy issues facing young deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) learners in Taiwan who are learning both a logographic and an alphabetic script. We describe the contextual factors that surround their reading and writing processes such as island demographics, reading achievement levels, and background language learning variables…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Deafness, Educational Policy
Otte, Michael – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
Learning is better than knowing, generalization is more illuminating than abstract generality or universality because we perceive and thus become conscious of change or development only. Signs and representations establish the dialectic of fixation on the one hand and transformation on the other, which is so essential to learning and cognition.…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Epistemology, Learning Processes, Schemata (Cognition)
Newport, Elissa L. – 1984
In examining the issue of why children do so well at language learning despite limited skill and experience, two possible explanations are addressed: one suggests that children learn language well exactly because they are limited, and the other proposes that children are extremely adept at language learning, perhaps more so than adults. Research…
Descriptors: Age Differences, American Sign Language, Child Language, Language Acquisition
