ERIC Number: EJ1468680
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
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Exploring Identity Building, Language Transmission and Educational Strategies for Immigrant d/Deaf Multilingual Learners
Diane Bedoin1
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v46 n2 p162-175 2025
This article, grounded in sociolinguistics, examines the identity building, language transmission and educational strategies of immigrant d/Deaf multilingual learners (IDML). The scientific literature mainly focuses on a single pair of languages -- the national spoken language and the national signed one. For example, Deaf Studies traditionally analyse the situation of the White Deaf user of English and American Sign Language (ASL). A major change has recently occurred with the emergence of multilingual, multicultural and inclusive Deaf Studies. At the same time, professionals and members of the school community regularly have to face the increasing diversity of d/Deaf students' profiles. Qualitative data were collected on an IDML cohort residing in and attending primary or secondary schools in France from families who use a spoken or signed language other than French or French Sign Language (LSF) at home. The main results reveal how the building of d/Deaf identity depends on linguistic and cultural transmission within families and to what extent the diversity of IDML is considered in educational strategies at school. The goal of the present paper is to stress the urgent need for this new and crucial research area on IDML to be developed in the French context and beyond.
Descriptors: Deafness, Multilingualism, Immigrants, Student Diversity, Elementary Secondary Education, Sign Language, Oral Language, Family Influence, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Language Usage
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: France
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Linguistics, DYLIS Laboratory, University of Rouen Normandy, Rouen, France