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Direct linkBuchanan, Beverly J.; Pirone, John S.; Pudans-Smith, Kimberly K.; Leffler, Brian W.; Cohen, Brad S.; Simmons, Paul K.; Ballentine, Pauline M.; Venable, Tabitha; Soza, Karen – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
American Sign Language (ASL) education is a relatively new field. Thus, further research is necessary, especially regarding developing assessment tools. The goal of this study was to determine the types of assessment tools ASL level 1 teachers use in the classroom and how those teachers measure students' language progression. This study is…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Language Teachers
Tsagari, Dina, Ed.; Csepes, Ildiko, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The Guidelines for Good Practice of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA) stress the importance of collaboration between all parties involved in the process of developing instruments, activities and programmes for testing and assessment. Collaboration is considered to be as important as validity and reliability,…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Testing, Language Tests, Test Validity
Nadolske, Marie Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Despite the fact that American Sign Language (ASL) courses at the college-level have been increasing in frequency, little is understood about the capabilities of hearing individuals learning a sign language as a second language. This study aims to begin assessing the language skills of advanced L2 learners of ASL by comparing L2 signer productions…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Deafness, Program Effectiveness, Language Skills
Kissel, Bonnie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Globally, approximately 208 million people aged 15 and older used illicit drugs at least once in the last 12 months; 2 billion consumed alcohol and tobacco consumption affected 25% (World Drug Report, 2008). In the United States, 20.1 million (8.0%) people aged 12 and older were illicit drug users, 129 million (51.6%) abused alcohol and 70.9…
Descriptors: Caring, Substance Abuse, Mothers, Smoking
Ditcharoen, Nadh; Naruedomkul, Kanlaya; Cercone, Nick – Computers & Education, 2010
Learning a second language is very difficult, especially, for the disabled; the disability may be a barrier to learn and to utilize information written in text form. We present the SignMT, Thai sign to Thai machine translation system, which is able to translate from Thai sign language into Thai text. In the translation process, SignMT takes into…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Syntax, Translation
Blake, Susana S. – 1988
The director of an Early Childhood Development Center located in the Southeast United States developed a practicum to provide Spanish instruction for preschool children. The main goal of the practicum intervention was to increase the Spanish vocabulary of 18 children of 5 years of age by 30 words over a 10-week period. Spanish words were presented…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Instructional Materials
