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Kluwin, Thomas N. – Sign Language Studies, 1981
Basing a manual communication system on written forms of English has two problems: (1) conventional forms of manual communication are based on the wrong modality; and (2) they do not represent English on any level. This causes an imbalance in the word-to-sign ratio in the classroom. (PJM)
Descriptors: English, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Instruction, Sentence Structure