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Direct linkLeala Holcomb – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This investigation aimed to explore the feasibility of implementing the strategic and interactive signing instruction (SISI) framework and its potential to enhance the signed composition skills of four deaf students in a first/second-grade classroom. SISI was adapted from the existing strategic and interactive writing instruction (SIWI) framework…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Deafness, Teaching Methods, Grade 1
Reynolds, Wanette – Sign Language Studies, 2018
A number of language acquisition patterns have been identified in the signing of a newly designated population of bimodal bilingual individuals--"heritage signers." This article examines subject-referent tracking forms in the ASL (American Sign Language) narratives of six elementary-school-aged, native-signing, bimodal bilinguals made at…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Native Language, Bilingualism, Elementary School Students
Pizzo, Lianna – Sign Language Studies, 2018
Vocabulary development is an essential linguistic component of later English literacy skills (National Reading Panel 2000). However, very few studies have addressed the promotion of vocabulary development in deaf children who are American Sign Language users (Luckner and Cooke 2010). Therefore, this qualitative collective case study examined the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, American Sign Language, Teaching Methods, Deafness
Massone, Maria Ignacia; Baez, Monica – Sign Language Studies, 2009
High illiteracy rates among the Argentine deaf population, even after long years of schooling, point to the need to revise certain approaches to deaf literacy, particularly in school settings. Qualitative change in deaf literacy requires the use of multiple conceptual tools if learners are to be able to tackle its complexity without reductionism…
Descriptors: Written Language, Sign Language, Deafness, Illiteracy
Snoddon, Kristin – Sign Language Studies, 2010
This article discusses the role of technology in supporting ASL literacy. This attention to technology is part of an exploratory study of Deaf elementary school students participating in an ASL identity text project at a bilingual/bicultural school for Deaf students in Ontario, Canada. This study is a contribution to the cross-Canada…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Deafness, Foreign Countries
Quartararo, Anne T. – Sign Language Studies, 2008
This study investigates the cultural and educational ideas of the French deaf poet-teacher Pierre Pelissier (1814-1863) who was an instructor at the Paris Deaf Institute from the early 1840s until his death in 1863. As a young man, Pelissier became interested in composing poetry and through his verse, captured many of the social frustrations…
Descriptors: Speech, Sign Language, Oral Language, Poets
