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Guynes, Kristen; Gordon, Emily; Vallone, Christina – Sign Language Studies, 2023
Despite the upward trajectory of formal American Sign Language (ASL) instruction, evidence-based practices remain in a rudimentary stage of development. Previously, no known studies had distinctly investigated supplemental ASL laboratories (ASL labs), despite over half of ASL instructors utilizing them alongside their classes. This qualitative…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Evidence Based Practice, Laboratories, College Students
Gil, Leslie; Collins, Laura – Sign Language Studies, 2022
This study examined the corrective feedback Deaf teachers used to target handshape, movement, and place-of-articulation errors in introductory American Sign Language (ASL) classes for hearing students. Although feedback is underresearched in bimodal second language (M2-L2) pedagogy, there is some evidence that teacher practices may differ from…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Deafness, Introductory Courses
Pizzo, Lianna – Sign Language Studies, 2018
Vocabulary development is an essential linguistic component of later English literacy skills (National Reading Panel 2000). However, very few studies have addressed the promotion of vocabulary development in deaf children who are American Sign Language users (Luckner and Cooke 2010). Therefore, this qualitative collective case study examined the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, American Sign Language, Teaching Methods, Deafness
Breen, Jonathon S. – Sign Language Studies, 2015
In 2012, a two-year pilot project was implemented throughout the Yukon to provide free, on-demand professional American Sign Language (ASL/English) interpretation services to all members of the Deaf community. Following extensive community consultation, this project was developed to meet a growing concern that a denial of ASL interpretation…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Deaf Interpreting, Quality of Life, Citizenship
Smith, Caitlin; Dicus, Danica – Sign Language Studies, 2015
Sign language interpreters work with a variety of consumer populations throughout their careers. One such population, referred to as "emergent signers," consists of consumers who are in the process of learning American Sign Language, and who rely on interpreters during their language acquisition period. A gap in the research is revealed…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Research, Surveys, Language Acquisition

Lou, Mimi Wheiping; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1987
Describes a conversation measure for evaluation communicative competence of deaf adolescents and adults in light of: 1) the rationale behind its development; 2) its independence of the subjects' language variety; and 3)its use in a study of 40 deaf adolescents. The interview protocal is give in the Appendix. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Sign Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Deafness