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The Lexical Shift in Japanese Sign Language (JSL) Toponyms: Accounting for the Preference of Complex over Simple Toponym Outputs
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George, Johnny – Sign Language Studies, 2022
This work categorizes Japanese Sign Language (JSL) toponyms, or place names, and examines factors that potentially affect their structure. Exonyms, influenced by the source Japanese name, and endonyms, independent JSL names, contrast structurally in that exonyms tend to emerge as compounds while endonyms conform more closely to canonical…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Naming, Japanese, Deafness
The Impact of COVID-19 on Sign Language Assessment
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Tobias Haug; Franz Holzknecht; Wolfgang Mann – Language Education & Assessment, 2024
This study investigated through an online survey how sign language practitioners changed their sign language assessment practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey consisted of five sections and 29 questions overall. It was provided in written English and German as well as in International Sign and was administered online between October…
Descriptors: Sign Language, COVID-19, Pandemics, Evaluation
Turn-Taking Machinery in a Japanese Sign Language Triadic Conversation in an Online Environment
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Martin Dale-Hench – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This article explores turn-taking in Japanese Sign Language ( JSL) by using Baker's (1977) framework. JSL as a language is wholly unrelated to American Sign Language (ASL), but because Baker and other discourse analysts have always been concerned mostly with ASL and European sign languages, it remains to be seen if Asian sign languages such as JSL…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Japanese, Interaction, Attention
Sign Bilingual Co-Enrollment Programs as Pathways to "Ibasho"
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McGuire, Jennifer M. – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2021
"Accessibility" features promote inclusive education but do not guarantee it. Communication accessibility, such as sign language interpretation or note-taking, may facilitate the academic inclusion of deaf students in general classrooms but does not necessarily enable their full social inclusion. Whereas in general classrooms deaf…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities
Numerals and Timelines of a Shared Sign Language in Japan: Miyakubo Sign Language on Ehime-Oshima Island
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Yano, Uiko; Matsuoka, Kazumi – Sign Language Studies, 2018
The current study continues our effort to document a shared sign language in Japan--Miyakubo Sign Language (Miyakubo SL) on Ehime-Oshima Island, located in the western part of Japan. After a brief sociological, geographical, and cultural introduction to Miyakubo SL, the topics of numeral expressions and timelines in Miyakubo SL are discussed. A…
Descriptors: Numbers, Sign Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Variation
Initial Assessment for K-12 English Language Support in Six Countries: Revisiting the Validity-Reliability Paradox
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Sinclair, Jeanne; Lau, Clarissa – Language and Education, 2018
It is common practice for K-12 schools to assess multilingual students' language proficiency to determine language support program placement. Because such programs can provide essential scaffolding, the policies guiding these assessments merit careful consideration. It is well accepted that quality assessments must be valid (representative of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Placement