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Direct linkYoel, Judith – Sign Language Studies, 2022
Maritime Sign Language (MSL) is a Canadian, minority sign language that originally stems from British Sign Language (BSL). Currently used by elderly Deaf people in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland (and Labrador), it is a moribund language, having undergone language shift to American Sign Language (ASL). MSL is…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Variation, Older Adults, Deafness
Gil, Leslie; Collins, Laura – Sign Language Studies, 2022
This study examined the corrective feedback Deaf teachers used to target handshape, movement, and place-of-articulation errors in introductory American Sign Language (ASL) classes for hearing students. Although feedback is underresearched in bimodal second language (M2-L2) pedagogy, there is some evidence that teacher practices may differ from…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Deafness, Introductory Courses
McDermid, Campbell – Sign Language Studies, 2017
A small group of interpreters was interviewed with regard to their view of learning ASL and becoming bicultural. A model of identity was then postulated based on Hegel's dialectic (Wheat 2012) of thesis (presuppositions, stereotypes, or theories about ASL and the Deaf community), antithesis (conflicting experiences), and synthesis (new…
Descriptors: English, Speech Communication, Deafness, American Sign Language
Parisot, Anne-Marie; Rinfret, Julie – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This article presents a portrait of two community-level and legal efforts in Canada to obtain official recognition of ASL and LSQ (Langue des signes quebecoise), both of which are recognized as official languages by the Canadian Association of the Deaf (CAD). In order to situate this issue in the Canadian linguistic context, the authors first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Sign Language, Sign Language, Official Languages
Breen, Jonathon S. – Sign Language Studies, 2015
In 2012, a two-year pilot project was implemented throughout the Yukon to provide free, on-demand professional American Sign Language (ASL/English) interpretation services to all members of the Deaf community. Following extensive community consultation, this project was developed to meet a growing concern that a denial of ASL interpretation…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Deaf Interpreting, Quality of Life, Citizenship
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
