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We Should Teach What? Qualitatively Aligning the Entry-to-Practice Competencies with Curricula in American Sign Language-English Interpreter Education
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Marc David Holmes – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In 1964, Deaf and hearing stakeholders convened at Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Indiana, to discuss the state of signed language interpreting in the United States. One topic of discussion was the competencies these interpreters should exhibit. Four decades later, Witter-Merithew and Johnson (2005) described American Sign Language…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Accreditation (Institutions), Standards, Second Language Learning
The Educational Interpreter Supervision and Support Survey: Part 1
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Weirick, Whitney R. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2021
Little literature exists documenting how K-12 American Sign Language-English interpreters are supervised or evaluated, or how supervision and evaluation affect interpreters and deaf and hard of hearing students. To address this gap, the author asked 230 educational interpreters about their experiences of supervision. Using a critical policy…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Supervision
Expanding and Aligning World Language Teaching. Policy Update. Vol. 25, No. 5
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Colletti, Gary – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2018
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) calls on states to take advantage of new opportunities to combat uneven access to quality instruction in world languages--a key component of a well-rounded education. This National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) policy update discusses ways state boards can bridge the divide between…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Access to Education, Alignment (Education), State Boards of Education
Phonological Substitution Errors in L2 ASL Sentence Processing by Hearing M2L2 Learners
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Williams, Joshua; Newman, Sharlene – Second Language Research, 2016
In the present study we aimed to investigate phonological substitution errors made by hearing second language (M2L2) learners of American Sign Language (ASL) during a sentence translation task. Learners saw sentences in ASL that were signed by either a native signer or a M2L2 learner. Learners were to simply translate the sentence from ASL to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phonology, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Effects of Varying Rate of Signing on ASL Manual Signs and Nonmanual Markers
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Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Language and Speech, 2009
Spoken languages are characterized by flexible, multivariate prosodic systems. As a natural language, American Sign Language (ASL), and other sign languages (SLs), are also expected to be characterized in the same way. Artificially created signing systems for classroom use, such as signed English, serve as a contrast to natural sign languages. The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Suprasegmentals, Semantics, Nonverbal Communication
Deaf Epistemology: The Deaf Way of Knowing
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Holcomb, Thomas K. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2010
The standard epistemology requires the use of hard science to gain knowledge and discover the truth. In contrast, Deaf epistemology relies heavily on personal testimonies, personal experiences, and personal accounts to document knowledge. In recent years, a number of deaf schools have adopted deaf-centric policies shaped by Deaf epistemology in an…
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Change, Epistemology, Academic Achievement