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Direct linkLeala 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
Cannon, Joanna E.; Guardino, Caroline – Deafness and Education International, 2012
The Gallaudet Research Institute confirms a 22.5 per cent increase from 2.7 per cent (2000) to 25.2 per cent (2011) in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students whose parents use a language "other" than English or American sign language (ASL) at home. These DHH students who are also English language learners (ELLs) struggle to learn English, perhaps…
Descriptors: Deafness, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), American Sign Language
Enns, Charlotte – Exceptionality Education International, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to describe a variety of teaching and learning strategies that were used within a classroom of Deaf adults participating in a high school English course as part of an upgrading program. The class was conducted in a bilingual manner; that is, being Deaf and communicating with American Sign Language (ASL) was not…
Descriptors: Deafness, Learning Strategies, Writing Skills, American Sign Language
Paul, Peter V. – Teaching English to Deaf and Second-Language Students, 1987
Discusses why and how American Sign Language should be used to teach English literacy skills. It is argued that previous studies have not systematically investigated the effects of American Sign Language on the development of English. (22 references) (CB) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Traits, Deafness
Download full textPaul, Peter V.; Gramly, Charles F. – 1986
Despite the fact that American Sign Language (ASL) has no written component, it still may be possible for deaf students to develop English literacy skills. To assess the effects of ASL on the development of English, it is proposed that native, and possibly non-native, signers be educated in a bilingual minority-language immersion program which…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingual Education Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Deafness
Duffy, J. Trey – 1987
A literature-based rationale for teaching American Sign Language (ASL) as the primary language system for deaf children elaborates on the following points: Sign languages are visual-manual; spoken languages are oral-aural. Competency in a first language tremendously increases a person's ability to learn a second language. Deaf children have not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Sign Language, Communication Skills, Cultural Background
