Language learning and deafness / [edited by] Michael Strong.

Contributor(s): Strong, Michael [[editor]]
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c2012Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139524483Subject(s): Deaf -- Education -- United States | English language -- Study and teaching | Deaf -- Means of communication -- United States | Deaf children -- United States -- LanguageGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 371.912 Online resources: Full text available at Cambridge Online Library Click here to view
Contents:
Preface Part I. Theoretical Issues: 1. Language varieties in the deaf population and their acquisition by children and adults Joseph H. Bochner and John A. Albertini 2. American Sign Language and the human biological capacity for language James Paul Gee and Wendy Goodhart 3. The history of language use in the education of the Deaf in the United States Mimi WheiPing Lou 4. Sing language instruction and its implications for the Deaf Steven Fritsch Rudser 5. A bilingual approach to the education of young deaf children: ASL and English Michael Strong Part II. Research Reports: 6. An assessment of syntactic capabilities Gerald P. Berent 7. Children's new sign creations Diane Lillo-Martin 8. Linguistic and cultural role models for hearing-impaired children in elementary school programs James Woodward, Thomas Allen and Arthur Schildroth 9. Acquiring linguistic and social identity: interactions of deaf children with a hearing teacher and a deaf adult Carol J. Erting 10. Development of vocal and signed communication in deaf and hearing twins of deaf parents Martha Gonter Gaustad 11. Questions and answers in the development of deaf children Hilde Schlesinger Index.
Summary: An important new collection of original papers dealing with essential issues and research in the learning of language by deaf people. The book addresses issues that concern the fields of second language acquisition and deafness, and draws upon the fields of linguistics, psychology, and education. Of particular importance is the relationship between the learning of English by the deaf and by hearing speakers of other languages. The first five chapters concern theoretical issues on language varieties among the deaf population, American sign language and the biology of language, sign language instruction, and language education of deaf children from both historical and bilingual perspectives. The second half of the book contains six original, previously unpublished research reports on topics related to language learning by deaf children and adults.
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Preface
Part I. Theoretical Issues: 1. Language varieties in the deaf population and their acquisition by children and adults Joseph H. Bochner and John A. Albertini
2. American Sign Language and the human biological capacity for language James Paul Gee and Wendy Goodhart
3. The history of language use in the education of the Deaf in the United States Mimi WheiPing Lou
4. Sing language instruction and its implications for the Deaf Steven Fritsch Rudser
5. A bilingual approach to the education of young deaf children: ASL and English Michael Strong
Part II. Research Reports: 6. An assessment of syntactic capabilities Gerald P. Berent
7. Children's new sign creations Diane Lillo-Martin
8. Linguistic and cultural role models for hearing-impaired children in elementary school programs James Woodward, Thomas Allen and Arthur Schildroth
9. Acquiring linguistic and social identity: interactions of deaf children with a hearing teacher and a deaf adult Carol J. Erting
10. Development of vocal and signed communication in deaf and hearing twins of deaf parents Martha Gonter Gaustad
11. Questions and answers in the development of deaf children Hilde Schlesinger
Index.

An important new collection of original papers dealing with essential issues and research in the learning of language by deaf people. The book addresses issues that concern the fields of second language acquisition and deafness, and draws upon the fields of linguistics, psychology, and education. Of particular importance is the relationship between the learning of English by the deaf and by hearing speakers of other languages. The first five chapters concern theoretical issues on language varieties among the deaf population, American sign language and the biology of language, sign language instruction, and language education of deaf children from both historical and bilingual perspectives. The second half of the book contains six original, previously unpublished research reports on topics related to language learning by deaf children and adults.

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