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Direct linkKate Huddlestone; Andries van Niekerk; Anne Baker – Sign Language Studies, 2025
Variation occurs in sign languages, just as in spoken languages. Lexical variation is very common and has been related to individual schools for the deaf, so-called "schoolization," rather than only to region or other common sociolinguistic factors, such as gender, social class, etc. (Baker et al. 2016). This study investigates lexical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Sign Language, Language Variation
O'Connell, Noel – Sign Language Studies, 2022
The development of a considerable body of literature on British Sign Language (BSL) now permits analyzing and describing the sociolinguistic history of the language. An impressive amount of sociolinguistic information on BSL pertaining to the United Kingdom (UK) provides rich material for such analysis, but, until now, very little BSL research has…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Sign Language, Foreign Countries
Scott, Jessica A.; Dostal, Hannah M.; Lane-Outlaw, Susan – American Annals of the Deaf, 2021
Scott, Dostal, and Lane-Outlaw challenge findings and conclusions from a literature review by Mayer and Trezek [EJ1269623] regarding the literacy achievement of deaf children who are educated in schools and programs that espouse bilingual ASL/English instruction. Mayer and Trezek's article appeared in the Winter 2020 "American Annals of the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Research, Literacy Education, Bilingual Education
Rubalcaba, Jacquelyn Catalina – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Deaf and hard of hearing (D/hh) students face academic challenges in the post-secondary setting due to low literacy skills and academic barriers. However, despite these challenges, little attention has been focused on mainstream faculty who teach D/hh students. This study investigated perceptions of mainstream faculty at the post-secondary level…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, College Faculty, Barriers
Stern, Ludmila; Liu, Xin – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
Legal and court interpreters require advanced professional skills to perform their demanding tasks. How well does Australia prepare interpreters to fulfil the linguistic needs of its numerous communities, including 'established' migrant, indigenous, 'new and emerging' and deaf, in a variety of legal settings? Based on the online data and…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Processing, Second Languages, Court Litigation
Download full textLooney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2019
Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
