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The Case for Heritage ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers
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Isakson, Su Kyong – Sign Language Studies, 2018
This article puts forward a solution to the impending shortage of culturally and linguistically competent interpreters: the education of heritage signers as heritage language learners. It examines the current landscape of American Sign Language (ASL) as a course of study and the difficulties heritage signers report when they begin learning ASL. In…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Research, Deaf Interpreting
Levels of Development in the Language of Deaf Children: ASL Grammatical Processes, Signed English Structures, and Semantic Features.
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Livingston, Sue – Sign Language Studies, 1983
A study of spontaneous sign language of six deaf children of hearing parents, examined three times in a 15-month period, is described. Processes and structures representative of and not representative of signed English were sought at various levels of linguistic complexity, including developing semantics, and compared with American Sign Language.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Sign Language, Children, Deafness
What's So Hard about Learning ASL?: Students'& Teachers' Perceptions.
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McKee, Rachel Locker; McKee, David – Sign Language Studies, 1992
A survey of teachers' and students' perceptions of the difficulty of learning American Sign Language (ASL) suggested that teachers generally rated the learning difficulty levels higher than students, and both groups cited such sociolinguistic and affective problems as cultural inhibitions, interacting with the deaf, and attitudes and motivations…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cultural Influences, Deafness, Difficulty Level