Language Acquisition By Deaf Children

Author : Kristina Coltzau
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656042181

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Language Acquisition by deaf children by Kristina Coltzau Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,7, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Language is the most important device in means of communication between human beings all over the world. We use it to ask something, to complain or explain and to tell what we think about things that come into our mind. But what if everything around you is silent? If you are deaf. You need to take advantage of one of your other organs, the eyes. Take advantage of facial expressions and gesticulation performed by others. In this term paper we have a look on language acquisition by deaf children in comparison with the acquisition by hearing children. First of all I will give information about deafness in general followed by an introduction to sign language. I will concentrate on American Sign Language (ASL) because of the small amount of information available about the other kinds of sign language. Within the comparison we need to differentiate between children growing up with hearing or deaf parents because of the impact the social environment has on language acquisition. This is also relevant to state because only 10% of the deaf children actually have deaf parents. Further I would like to introduce bilingualism in connection with deafness. In my conclusion I will state why studies on the subject of language acquisition by deaf children are important to understand language in his whole complexity.

Author : Britta Wirth
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638491365

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Language Acquisition in Deaf Children by Britta Wirth Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Ruhr-University of Bochum (English Department), course: Child Language Acquisition, language: English, abstract: Language acquisition has been studied for a long time, but it is not completely understood yet. Charles Darwin may have been the first to examine the development of a first language and he assumed that humans have an instinct to learn language. Later on this idea was replaced by the notion that the acquisition of language is a sociocultural phenomenon. In the early 1960s the linguist Chomsky presented a new explanation: he said that children learn a language in the same way, for example, as they learn to walk upright, because it is part of their nature and not because it is a form of their culture. Thus language acquisition has a natural course of development.1If this theory is absolutely right or not is still being argued but shall not be the prior topic of this paper. This work shall examine what happens if children are hearing impaired. Are they able to follow the usual process of language acquisition or not. In order to assess the consequences of language acquisition affected by physical disability, one has to consider a ‘general’ process of language development first. There are various factors which have an influence on a child’s process of language acquisition. How large the impact of a specific factor is varies from theory to theory. Nevertheless, linguists agree that the “grammatical structure, the possible innate language acquisition mechanisms or biases as well as the biological or cognitive maturational factors and the nature of the language input to the child and the social context in which it takes place” influence a child’s language development. No matter which factor has the most impressive impact on a child’s speech progress, by the age of four years he or she usually has a good command of the basic vocabulary, syntax and phonology. This language proficiency is found in all healthy children all over the world.

Author : Deborah Heinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : American Sign Language
ISBN : 3656688192

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Sign Language Acquisition of Deaf Children by Deborah Heinen Pdf

Author : Brenda Schick,Marc Marschark,Patricia Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0198039964

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Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children by Brenda Schick,Marc Marschark,Patricia Elizabeth Spencer Pdf

The use of sign language has a long history. Indeed, humans' first languages may have been expressed through sign. Sign languages have been found around the world, even in communities without access to formal education. In addition to serving as a primary means of communication for Deaf communities, sign languages have become one of hearing students' most popular choices for second-language study. Sign languages are now accepted as complex and complete languages that are the linguistic equals of spoken languages. Sign-language research is a relatively young field, having begun fewer than 50 years ago. Since then, interest in the field has blossomed and research has become much more rigorous as demand for empirically verifiable results have increased. In the same way that cross-linguistic research has led to a better understanding of how language affects development, cross-modal research has led to a better understanding of how language is acquired. It has also provided valuable evidence on the cognitive and social development of both deaf and hearing children, excellent theoretical insights into how the human brain acquires and structures sign and spoken languages, and important information on how to promote the development of deaf children. This volume brings together the leading scholars on the acquisition and development of sign languages to present the latest theory and research on these topics. They address theoretical as well as applied questions and provide cogent summaries of what is known about early gestural development, interactive processes adapted to visual communication, linguisic structures, modality effects, and semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic development in sign. Along with its companion volume, Advances in the Spoken Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of Hearing Children, this book will provide a deep and broad picture about what is known about deaf children's language development in a variety of situations and contexts. From this base of information, progress in research and its application will accelerate, and barriers to deaf children's full participation in the world around them will continue to be overcome.

Author : Gary Morgan,Bencie Woll
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027234728

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Directions in Sign Language Acquisition by Gary Morgan,Bencie Woll Pdf

This is the second volume in the series 'Trends in language acquisition research'. The unusual combination in one volume of reports on various different sign languages in acquisition makes this book quite unique.

Author : Professor of Speech Language and Hearing Science Brenda Schick
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780195180947

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Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children by Professor of Speech Language and Hearing Science Brenda Schick Pdf

The authors provide cogent summaries of what is known about early gestural development, interactive processes adapted to visual communication, & the processes of semantic, syntactic, & pragmatic development in sign.

Author : Charlene Chamberlain,Jill P. Morford,Rachel I. Mayberry
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135679156

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Language Acquisition By Eye by Charlene Chamberlain,Jill P. Morford,Rachel I. Mayberry Pdf

This book focuses on the early acquisition of signed languages and the later development of reading by children who use signed languages. It represents the first collection of research papers focused solely on the acquisition of various signed languages by very young children--all of whom are acquiring signed languages natively, from deaf parents. It is also the first collection to investigate the possible relationships between the acquisition of signed language and reading development in school-aged children. The underlying questions addressed by the chapters are how visual-gestural languages develop and whether and how visual languages can serve the foundation for learning a second visual representation of language, namely, reading. Language Acquisition by Eye is divided into two parts, anchored in the toddler phase and the school-pupil phase. The central focus of Part I is on the earliest stages of signed language acquisition. The chapters in this part address important questions as to what "babytalk" looks like in signed language and the effect it has on babies' attention, what early babbling looks like in signed language, what babies' earliest signs look like, how parents talk to their babies in signed language to ensure that their babies "see" what's being said, and what the earliest sentences in signed languages tell us about the acquisition of grammar. With contrasting research paradigms, these chapters all show the degree to which parents and babies are highly sensitive to one another's communicative interactions in subtle and complex ways. Such observations cannot be made for spoken language acquisition because speech does not require that the parent and child look at each other during communication whereas signed language does. Part II focuses on the relationship between signed language acquisition and reading development in children who are deaf. All of these chapters report original research that investigates and uncovers a positive relationship between the acquisition and knowledge of signed language and the development of reading skills and as a result, represents a historical first in reading research. This section discusses how current theory applies to the case of deaf children's reading and presents new data that illuminates reading theory. Using a variety of research paradigms, each chapter finds a positive rather than a negative correlation between signed language knowledge and usage, and the development of reading skill. These chapters are sure to provide the foundation for new directions in reading research.

Author : Anne Baker,Bencie Woll
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289599

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Sign Language Acquisition by Anne Baker,Bencie Woll Pdf

How children acquire a sign language and the stages of sign language development are extremely important topics in sign linguistics and deaf education, with studies in this field enabling assessment of an individual child’s communicative skills in comparison to others. In order to do research in this area it is important to use the right methodological tools. The contributions to this volume address issues covering the basics of doing sign acquisition research, the use of assessment tools, problems of transcription, analyzing narratives and carrying out interaction studies. It serves as an ideal reference source for any researcher or student of sign languages who is planning to do such work. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 8:1/2 (2005)

Author : Patricia L. McAnally,Susan Rose,Stephen Patrick Quigley
Publisher : Pro-Ed
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X002531921

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Language Learning Practices with Deaf Children by Patricia L. McAnally,Susan Rose,Stephen Patrick Quigley Pdf

Author : Virginia Volterra,Carol J. Erting
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783642748592

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From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children by Virginia Volterra,Carol J. Erting Pdf

Virginia Volterra and Carol Erting have made an important contribu tion to knowledge with this selection of studies on language acquisi tion. Collections of studies clustered more or less closely around a topic are plentiful, but this one is 1 nique. Volterra and Erting had a clear plan in mind when making their selection. Taken together, the studies make the case that language is inseparable from human inter action and communication and, especially in infancy, as much a matter of gestural as of vocal behavior. The editors have arranged the papers in five coherent sections and written an introduction to each section in addition to the expected general introduction and conclu sion. No introductory course in child and language development will be complete without this book. Presenting successively studies of hearing children acquiring speech languages, of deaf children acquiring sign languages, of hear ing children of deaf parents, of deaf children of hearing parents, and of hearing children compared with deaf children, Volterra and Erting give one a wider than usual view oflanguage acquisition. It is a view that would have been impossible not many years ago - when the primary languages of deaf adults had received neither recognition nor respect.

Author : Susan Goldin-Meadow
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781841694368

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The Resilience of Language by Susan Goldin-Meadow Pdf

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'. The children are congenitally deaf and cannot learn the spoken language that surrounds them. In addition, they have not yet been exposed to sign language, either by their hearing parents or their oral schools. Nevertheless, the children use their hands to communicate - they gesture - and those gestures take on many of the forms and functions of language. The properties of language that we find in the deaf children's gestures are just those properties that do not need to be handed down from generation to generation, but can be reinvented by a child de novo - the resilient properties of language. This book suggests that all children, deaf or hearing, come to language-learning ready to develop precisely these language properties. In this way, studies of gesture creation in deaf children can show us the way that children themselves have a large hand in shaping how language is learned.

Author : Patricia Elizabeth Spencer,Marc Marschark
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195179873

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Advances in the Spoken-Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children by Patricia Elizabeth Spencer,Marc Marschark Pdf

Contributors present the latest information on both the new world evolving for deaf & hard-of-hearing children & the improved expectations for their acquisition of spoken language.

Author : Susan R. Easterbrooks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197524886

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Language Learning in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing by Susan R. Easterbrooks Pdf

"Language Learning in Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, 2nd Edition: Theory to Classroom Practice is the long-awaited revision of the only textbook on primary language instruction written with classroom teachers of deaf and hard-of-hearing children (TODs) in mind. It builds on the work of the previous version while providing the reader with access to the entire first version on a supplemental website. An important feature of this book is that it describes four real TODs and demonstrates application of concepts discussed to the DHH children on their caseloads. Up-to-date chapters on theory of language learning, assessment, and evidence-based practice replace removed chapters. Chapters on English and American Sign Language (ASL) structure and on the three major approaches (listening and spoken language, bilingual-bimodal instruction, and ASL instruction) are updated. The chapters on teaching vocabulary and morphosyntax, how to ask and answer questions, and writing language objectives for Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) are expanded DHH. Specific examples of real cases are incorporated throughout the book. Finally, after a theoretical base of information on language instruction, many of the chapter provide language teachers with specific examples of how to answer the question: "What should I do on Monday." It avoids promotion of one or another philosophy, presenting all and demonstrating the commonalities across classroom language instruction approaches for DHH children"--

Author : Deborah Chen Pichler,Marlon Kuntze,Diane Lillo-Martin,Marianne Rossi Stumpf,Ronice Müller de Quadros
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 156368554X

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Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf and Hearing Children by Deborah Chen Pichler,Marlon Kuntze,Diane Lillo-Martin,Marianne Rossi Stumpf,Ronice Müller de Quadros Pdf

This digital textbook offers an accessible introduction to first, second, and bilingual language acquisition, focusing on sign languages as the primary frame of reference. Signed entirely in American Sign Language with accompanying slides and an optional English voice-over, this digital text provides an innovative approach to conveying the visual, moving elements intrinsic to sign language, maintaining accessibility to both ASL-dominant and English-dominant readers. Unlike most texts that rely on spoken language examples to illustrate the process of language development, Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf and Hearing Children draws from a rich body of sign language research to guide the user through the major developmental milestones for language acquisition. The textbook examines universal properties of first language acquisition, the wide variation in language input experienced by deaf children, and the impact of such variation on language development. Sign language development in other contexts, focusing on late-exposed signers, child and adult bilingual signers, hearing L2 signers, and atypical signers with cognitive disorders or Specific Language Impairments, is addressed, as well. Critical terms and concepts are highlighted on slides that accompany each video chapter, indicating their inclusion in a 200+ item bilingual glossary, which is accessible from any point in the video text. Conveniently packaged on a USB flash drive, the text also includes printable PDF versions of the chapter slides and a complete reference list. Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf and Hearing Children is an excellent resource for language acquisition courses and early intervention training, as well as for parents of deaf and hearing signing children. A Brazilian edition of the text in Libras with spoken Brazilian Portuguese voice-over will be available from Editora da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Author : Peter V. Paul
Publisher : Singular
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children
ISBN : UOM:39015049649281

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Language and Deafness by Peter V. Paul Pdf

"The Fourth Edition of Language and Deafness covers language and literacy development from preschool through adolescence. It provides a clear depiction of the language/communication systems of d/Deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents, and offers a comprehensive discussion of the current theories of language acquisition. In an easy-to-read, accessible manner, students will learn the basics of language development and the relationship between language and cognition. Oral communication methods and English-like signing systems, linguistics/sociolinguistics of American Sign Language, and multicultural aspects, including bilingualism and second-language learning are covered in detail. Each chapter includes major objectives, summaries, suggested readings, problem-solving activities and challenge review questions to stimulate and provoke classroom dialogue."--BOOK JACKET.