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Direct linkQuer, Josep – Sign Language Studies, 2012
Despite being minority languages like many others, sign languages have traditionally remained absent from the agendas of policy makers and language planning and policies. In the past two decades, though, this situation has started to change at different paces and to different degrees in several countries. In this article, the author describes the…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Educational Policy
de Quadros, Ronice Muller – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This article explains the consolidation of Brazilian Sign Language in Brazil through a linguistic plan that arose from the Brazilian Sign Language Federal Law 10.436 of April 2002 and the subsequent Federal Decree 5695 of December 2005. Two concrete facts that emerged from this existing language plan are discussed: the implementation of bilingual…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Professional Education, Bilingual Education, Linguistics
Schermer, Trude – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This article discusses several aspects of language planning with respect to Sign Language of the Netherlands, or Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT). For nearly thirty years members of the Deaf community, the Dutch Deaf Council (Dovenschap) have been working together with researchers, several organizations in deaf education, and the organization of…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Behares, Luis Ernesto; Brovetto, Claudia; Crespi, Leonardo Peluso – Sign Language Studies, 2012
In the first part of this article the authors consider the policies that apply to Uruguayan Sign Language (Lengua de Senas Uruguaya; hereafter LSU) and the Uruguayan Deaf community within the general framework of language policies in Uruguay. By analyzing them succinctly and as a whole, the authors then explain twenty-first-century innovations.…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Deafness
Geraci, Carlo – Sign Language Studies, 2012
Italian Sign Language (LIS) is the name of the language used by the Italian Deaf community. The acronym LIS derives from Lingua italiana dei segni ("Italian language of signs"), although nowadays Italians refers to LIS as Lingua dei segni italiana, reflecting the more appropriate phrasing "Italian sign language." Historically,…
Descriptors: Dialects, American Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Hult, Francis M.; Compton, Sarah E. – Sign Language Studies, 2012
The role of languages is a central issue in deaf education. The function of sign languages in education and deaf students' opportunities to develop linguistic abilities in both sign languages and the dominant language(s) of a society are key considerations (Hogan-Brun 2009; Reagan 2010, 53; Swanwick 2010a). Accordingly, what Kaplan and Baldauf…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Language of Instruction
