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Emily Jo Noschese – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025
This qualitative study delves into the innovative Bilingual Grammar Curriculum. The curriculum aims to enhance bilingualism and linguistic skills among deaf students by integrating American Sign Language instruction and written language grammatical structures. The researcher conducted in-depth interviews with 12 experienced educators of the deaf…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Bilingual Education, Grammar
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Scott, Jessica A.; Henner, Jonathan – Deafness & Education International, 2021
Signing systems that attempted to represent spoken language via manual signs -- some invented, and some borrowed from natural sign languages -- have historically been used in classrooms with deaf children. However, despite decades of research and use of these systems in the classroom, there is little evidence supporting their educational…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, American Sign Language, Teaching Methods
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Finneran, Rosette Bambino – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2015
Why should second and foreign language teachers tune into instructed second language acquisition (ISLA)? There are many reasons, several of which have already been addressed in this forum. This paper examines one important benefit of keeping abreast of the field, namely, the opportunity for classroom instructors to extract pedagogical insights…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Buisson, Gerald J. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2007
Teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students must serve as language models for their students. However, preservice deaf education teachers typically have at most only four semesters of American Sign Language (ASL) training. How can their limited ASL instructional time be used to increase their proficiency? Studies involving deaf and hard of…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Sentences, Scores, American Sign Language
Conwell, Marilyn; And Others – 1982
The following articles are presented in the section of the Northeast Conference Report on less frequently taught languages: (1) "American Sign Language," by M. Conwell and A. Nelson; (2) "Chinese," by D. Gidman; (3) "Japanese," by J. P. Berwald and T. Phipps; (4) "Latin," by M. Cleary; (5) "Portuguese," by R. Pedro Carvalho; and (6) "Russian," by…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Chinese, Grammar, Japanese
PEPNet 2, 2007
The 2007 meeting of the English Think Tank published here represents a sample of the English Think Tank V presentations. In reading these papers one is struck by the imagination and expertise possessed by so many members in the field. The paper topics fall roughly into four categories--assessment, diversity, literacy, and technology. This…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Writing Processes, Web Sites, Developmental Programs