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Thoutenhoofd, Ernst D.; Lyngbäck, Liz Adams – Sign Language Studies, 2023
In 1981, Sweden was the first country in the world to entitle deaf pupils to a bimodal-bilingual education. However, drawing from interviews with key past Stockholm teacher trainers and on our own efforts to update teacher training, we note that sign-bilingual teacher training in Sweden has been ad hoc to this day. The interviewees' accounts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Sign Language, Teacher Education Programs
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Marton, Eniko; MacIntyre, Peter D. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The realisation of the linguistic rights of Deaf individuals is, to a considerable extent, dependent upon whether there are majority language speakers who acquire a sign language as an L2 and use their L2 skills. Still, the motivation of hearing persons in learning sign languages as L2s is a largely unmapped area. This study seeks to capture the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sarolta, Simigne Fenyo – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2011
The objective of the present study is to investigate sign language culture as part of multiculturalism in Hungary. The study consists of two parts. Referring to the 13 national and linguistic minorities living in the territory of Hungary, the first part gives a short account of the narrower interpretation of multiculturalism according to which it…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries