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Karen Kyriakou – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2022
For the past 12 years I have been involved teaching music at a deaf school in Melbourne, philanthropically supported by Musica Viva's Equal Music program. The students use Auslan as their primary language and prior to the residency there had not been a music program in the school for more than a decade. Students now participate fully in the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Sign Language
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Stern, Ludmila; Liu, Xin – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
Legal and court interpreters require advanced professional skills to perform their demanding tasks. How well does Australia prepare interpreters to fulfil the linguistic needs of its numerous communities, including 'established' migrant, indigenous, 'new and emerging' and deaf, in a variety of legal settings? Based on the online data and…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Processing, Second Languages, Court Litigation
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Willoughby, Louisa; Linder, Stephanie; Ellis, Kirsten; Fisher, Julie – Sign Language Studies, 2015
Although the literature on general characteristics of effective sign language teaching is growing, relatively few studies have looked in detail at classroom practices or classroom discourse. This article draws on detailed observations of six beginner Australian Sign Language (Auslan) classes and postclass interviews with the teachers in order to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Sign Language, Classroom Communication, Teacher Attitudes
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Ting, Claire; Gilmore, Linda – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
This study explored preservice teacher attitudes towards teaching a deaf student who uses Australian Sign Language (Auslan) compared to a student who is new to Australia and speaks Polish. The participants were 200 preservice teachers in their third or fourth year of university education. A questionnaire was created to measure attitudes, and…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Napier, Jemina – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2006
This paper explores discourse features of Australian Sign Language (Auslan) and the need for sign language interpreting students to acquire an understanding of, and skills in, a range of discourse genres in Auslan in order to effectively carry out the work required in their profession. Discourse features of spoken English are outlined and compared…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Academic Discourse, Sign Language
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 11th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2014), October 25-27, 2014, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education