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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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Lederer, Susan Hendler – Young Exceptional Children, 2018
Teaching young children with language delays to say or sign the word "more" has had strong support from the literature since the 1970s (Bloom & Lahey, 1978; Holland, 1975; Lahey & Bloom, 1977; Lederer, 2002). Semantically, teaching children the word/sign "more" is supported by research on early vocabulary development…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Speech Language Pathology, Delayed Speech, Children
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Beal-Alvarez, Jennifer S.; Easterbrooks, Susan R. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
The Authors examined classifier production during narrative retells by 10 deaf and hard of hearing students in grades 2-4 at a day school for the deaf following a 6-week intervention of repeated viewings of stories in American Sign Language (ASL) paired with scripted teacher mediation. Classifier production, documented through a…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Form Classes (Languages), Pictorial Stimuli, Story Telling