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Eveline Boers-Visker – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Sign language learners with a spoken language background face the challenge of acquiring a second language in a different modality. In the course of this endeavor, one of the modality-specific phenomena they encounter is the use of classifier predicates, also known as depicting signs. Classifier predicates contain a meaningful hand configuration…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Knoors, Harry; Renting, Bertien – American Annals of the Deaf, 2000
A study involving six bilingually educated children (ages 5-6) with deafness found overall level of involvement was high on three educational tasks and was influenced by type of task, teacher, and language of instruction. Involvement was greater during activities led by the teacher with deafness using Sign Language of the Netherlands. (Contains…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Children, Deafness, Elementary Education