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Karina Muñoz Vilugrón; Jessica Aliaga Rojas; Gina Morales Acosta – Sign Language Studies, 2024
In Chile, education of deaf students historically revealed a position of subordination with respect to the hearing population, oppressive dynamics, and reparatory inclusion mechanisms. Therefore, the following questions are to be answered from the individual experiences of deaf adults: What situations experienced at school represent areas of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience, Student Attitudes
Hailu, Eyasu; Mohammed, Sophia – Sign Language Studies, 2021
To date, there has not been any research conducted on the South Sudanese Deaf community and South Sudanese Sign Language (SSSL). This article presents an introductory note about both with information gained from personal observations of the authors and from online resources. It provides an insight for furthering extensive research on the newest…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Information Sources
Sayers, Edna Edith – Sign Language Studies, 2021
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, when Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was famously advocating for sign language to be the language of instruction for deaf children in the United States, European philosophers were founding modern linguistics. Gallaudet was not able to benefit from their breakthroughs, however, because his upbringing,…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Advocacy, Teaching Methods
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
Dotter, Franz; Bidoli, Cynthia J. Kellett – Sign Language Studies, 2017
The high degree of comprehensibility between the signed languages in Trieste (present-day Italy) and Austria is very probably due to their joint history of deaf schools within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Investigation undertaken in archives in Trieste and Klagenfurt has revealed interesting similarities in the education of deaf children there…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Educational History, Special Schools
Fisher, Jami N.; Tamminga, Meredith; Hochgesang, Julie A. – Sign Language Studies, 2018
The focus of this article is the experiences of Deaf Philadelphians vis-à-vis language policy and practice at PSD. We delineate the official and unofficial communication philosophies and pedagogies from the school's inception to present day, providing a framework for understanding the trajectory of linguistic freedom and restriction of its…
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Planning, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy
Leala Holcomb – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This investigation aimed to explore the feasibility of implementing the strategic and interactive signing instruction (SISI) framework and its potential to enhance the signed composition skills of four deaf students in a first/second-grade classroom. SISI was adapted from the existing strategic and interactive writing instruction (SIWI) framework…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Deafness, Teaching Methods, Grade 1
Ennis, William T., III; Greenwald, Brian H. – Sign Language Studies, 2016
This article examines the beginnings of the first Deaf history class taught at Gallaudet University in 1986, as well as strategies used by the faculty of the history department to teach Deaf history.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Deafness, Educational History, College Faculty
Schuster, Michal; Hirsch, Galia – Sign Language Studies, 2018
This article discusses the occurrence of voids in the intersection between Hebrew and Israeli Sign Language (ISL). Using Weizman's classification of voids (2010, 2016) in our analysis, we have discovered that languages that employ visual and auditory modalities make use of an additional category of voids: modality-induced voids. Our corpus…
Descriptors: Deafness, Sign Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Semitic Languages
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
von Bitter, Melanie; Turley, Karen – Sign Language Studies, 2016
This article presents strategies for locating and using digitally available primary source documents in the fields of Deaf history and Deaf cultural studies for instruction in a Deaf history class, traditional history/social studies class, or language arts class in lessons that incorporate the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/…
Descriptors: Deafness, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Primary Sources
Robinson, Octavian – Sign Language Studies, 2016
This article discusses the joys, rewards, and challenges of using Deaf history as a framework for teaching Deaf studies, Deaf history and culture, and American Sign Language to hearing undergraduates in a liberal arts college oriented to social justice.
Descriptors: Deafness, Social Justice, Liberal Arts, History
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
Willoughby, Louisa; Linder, Stephanie; Ellis, Kirsten; Fisher, Julie – Sign Language Studies, 2015
Although the literature on general characteristics of effective sign language teaching is growing, relatively few studies have looked in detail at classroom practices or classroom discourse. This article draws on detailed observations of six beginner Australian Sign Language (Auslan) classes and postclass interviews with the teachers in order to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Sign Language, Classroom Communication, Teacher Attitudes
Woodward, James; Hoa, Nguyen Thi – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This paper discusses how the Nippon Foundation-funded project "Opening University Education to Deaf People in Viet Nam through Sign Language Analysis, Teaching, and Interpretation," also known as the Dong Nai Deaf Education Project, has been implemented through sign language studies from 2000 through 2012. This project has provided deaf…
Descriptors: Sign Language, High Schools, Deafness, Higher Education