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Cornelia Loos; Donna Jo Napoli – Sign Language Studies, 2023
Visual manifestations of an object that moves from one place to another are common in sign languages. Here, we offer an overview of techniques for conveying motion of an entity based on an examination of storytelling and poetry in seven sign languages. The signer can use embodiment and/or classifiers to show translocating movement of an object, or…
Descriptors: Motion, Sign Language, Poetry, Story Telling
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Julia Berginski; Thomas Finkbeiner; Nina-Kristin Meister; Alexander Silbersdorff – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2024
To address diversity-sensitive higher education, we provide the first results exhibiting the importance of the use of German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS) in lecture videos of elementary statistics courses. We examined whether deaf individuals preferred lecture videos in DGS over those with captions. Results from quantitative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Preferences, Instructional Materials
Blau, Shane Reuven – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Infants are born highly sensitive to the natural patterns found in languages. They use their perceptual sensitivity to acquire detailed information about the structure of languages in their environment. To date, most studies of infant perception and early language acquisition have investigated spoken/auditory languages and hearing infants (e.g.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Linguistic Input, Language Patterns, Infants
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Nicole Marx; Wolfgang Mann – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Language assessment is a central aspect not only of language education in the general population, but also amongst heterogeneous, low-incidence populations. One such population are immigrant deaf and hard-of-hearing learners (IDML) who are bimodal-multilingual and whose languages development often includes the spoken, written, and/or signed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Sign Language, Immigrants
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Tobias Haug; Franz Holzknecht; Wolfgang Mann – Language Education & Assessment, 2024
This study investigated through an online survey how sign language practitioners changed their sign language assessment practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey consisted of five sections and 29 questions overall. It was provided in written English and German as well as in International Sign and was administered online between October…
Descriptors: Sign Language, COVID-19, Pandemics, Evaluation
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Krause, Christina M.; Wille, Annika M. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2021
Research rarely focuses on how deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students address mathematical ideas. Complexities involved in using sign language (SL) in mathematics classrooms include not just challenges, but opportunities that accompany mathematics learning in this gestural-somatic medium. The authors consider DHH students primarily as learners of…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Mathematics Education, Semiotics, Deafness
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Napoli, Donna Jo; de Quadros, Ronice Müller; Rathmann, Christian – Sign Language Studies, 2022
Nonmanual articulations in sign languages range from being semantically impoverished to semantically rich, and from being independent of manual articulations to coordinated with them. But, while this range has been well noted, certain nonmanuals remain understudied. Of particular interest to us are nonmanual articulations coordinated with manual…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Human Body, Semantics, Cross Cultural Studies
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Krause, Christina M. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2019
This Brief Report addresses the fundamental role that sign language plays in the mathematics classroom of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students. Selected findings are gathered from an ongoing study of signs and gestures used by DHH students and their teachers when encountering and communicating mathematical ideas at a German special-needs school…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Mathematics Instruction, Deafness, Partial Hearing
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Hofmann, Kristin; Chilla, Solveig – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2015
Adopting a bimodal bilingual language acquisition model, this qualitative case study is the first in Germany to investigate the spoken and sign language development of hearing children of deaf adults (codas). The spoken language competence of six codas within the age range of 3;10 to 6;4 is assessed by a series of standardised tests (SETK 3-5,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
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Clark, M. Diane; Hauser, Peter C.; Miller, Paul; Kargin, Tevhide; Rathmann, Christian; Guldenoglu, Birkan; Kubus, Okan; Spurgeon, Erin; Israel, Erica – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
Researchers have used various theories to explain deaf individuals' reading skills, including the dual route reading theory, the orthographic depth theory, and the early language access theory. This study tested 4 groups of children--hearing with dyslexia, hearing without dyslexia, deaf early signers, and deaf late signers (N = 857)--from 4…
Descriptors: Deafness, Sign Language, Reading Skills, Hearing Impairments
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Haug, Tobias – Language Testing, 2012
Despite the current need for reliable and valid test instruments in different countries in order to monitor the sign language acquisition of deaf children, very few tests are commercially available that offer strong evidence for their psychometric properties. This mirrors the current state of affairs for many sign languages, where very little…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sign Language, Language Tests, Construct Validity
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Eichmann, Hanna – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
In light of the absence of a codified standard variety in British Sign Language and German Sign Language ("Deutsche Gebardensprache") there have been repeated calls for the standardization of both languages primarily from outside the Deaf community. The paper is based on a recent grounded theory study which explored perspectives on sign…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Language Planning, Sign Language, Deafness
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2020
For the forty-third time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented online during the annual AECT Convention. Volume 1 contains 37 papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Professional Development, Feminism
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Korvorst, Marjolein; Nuerk, Hans-Christoph; Willmes, Klaus – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007
This study examines a wide range of numerical representations (i.e., quantity, knowledge of multiplication facts, and use of parity information) in adult deaf signers. We introduce a modified version of the number bisection task, with sequential stimulus presentation, which allows for a systematic examination of mathematical skills in deaf…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Stimuli, Sign Language, Multiplication
Schulte, Ernst – 1995
This paper outlines the current state of higher education for deaf students in Germany. While no special universities exist in Germany for the deaf, numerous special provisions such as note-takers and interpreters are made available at regular universities, subject to budgetary constraints. The fact that no single German sign language has yet been…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Deafness, Decision Making, Education Work Relationship