CoUnSiL: Collaborative Universe for Remote Interpreting of Sign Language in Higher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 392-399
Author(s):  
Vít Rusňák ◽  
Pavel Troubil ◽  
Svatoslav Ondra ◽  
Tomáš Sklenák ◽  
Desana Daxnerová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sign Language

scholarly journals Evaluating the Teaching-Learning Process of Brazilian Sign Language as a Second Language in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Roberto Cesar Reis da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
Brazilian Sign Language ◽  
Teaching Learning

The focus of this paper is to propose an evaluation tool to assess the teaching-learning process of Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) to hearing students in Higher Education. The current Brazilian laws dealing with the accessibility of the deaf and the teaching of Libras will be concisely posited and argued, and after that an overview on linguistic aspects of Libras will be highlighted prior to discussing the teaching of this language as a Second Language (L2). Also, it will be discussed briefly the relevance of using strategies to Libras teaching as L2 and then the proposal to evaluate teaching and learning processes of the language at stake will be finally described. As a conclusion, developing tools as well as presenting proposals for the teaching of sign languages might be ways to highlight and discuss pedagogical issues about the teaching of the sign languages. The paper outcomes are useful for scholars and learners who are researching and implementing tools for Libras teaching as L2.

scholarly journals Teaching Irish Sign Language in Contact Zones: An Autoethnography

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel O'Connell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Journal Writing ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Communication Modes ◽  
Language Conflict ◽  
Central Purpose

The central purpose of this autoethnographic study is to provide an account of my experiences as a deaf teacher teaching Irish Sign Language (ISL) to hearing students in a higher education institution. My cultural and linguistic background and personal history guided the way I interacted with students who found themselves confronted by a unique culture quite separate from what they had known before. By engaging in autoethnographic journal writing recorded over a period of three months, I reveal the complex social and historical relations manifested in the contact between deaf and hearing cultures in the classroom. More specifically, I consider how language conflict and different communication modes might affect teaching and learning in concrete situations. In particular, I advocate an understanding of Pratt’s (1991) “contact zone” theory to see deaf-hearing contacts not just as challenges but possibilities for new ways of understanding the experience of sign language teaching and learning.

scholarly journals The corpus-driven revolution in Polish Sign Language: the interview with Dr. Paweł Rutkowski

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-90
Author(s):  
Iztok Kosem ◽  
Victoria Nyst
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
Science Centre ◽  
National Science ◽  
The University

Dr. Paweł Rutkowski is head of the Section for Sign Linguistics at the University of Warsaw. He is a general linguist and a specialist in the field of syntax of natural languages, carrying out research on Polish Sign Language (polski język migowy — PJM). He has been awarded a number of prizes, grants and scholarships by such institutions as the Foundation for Polish Science, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Science Centre, Poland, Polish–U.S. Fulbright Commission, Kosciuszko Foundation and DAAD.Dr. Rutkowski leads the team developing the Corpus of Polish Sign Language and the Corpus-based Dictionary of Polish Sign Language, the first dictionary of this language prepared in compliance with modern lexicographical standards. The dictionary is an open-access publication, available freely at the following address: www.slownikpjm.uw.edu.pl/en/.This interview took place at eLex 2017, a biennial conference on electronic lexicography, where Dr. Rutkowski was awarded the Adam Kilgarriff Prize and gave a keynote address entitled Sign language as a challenge to electronic lexicography: The Corpus-based Dictionary of Polish Sign Language and beyond. The interview was conducted by Dr. Victoria Nyst from Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, and Dr. Iztok Kosem from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.

scholarly journals The evaluation of deaf people fluent in Brazilian Sign Language in the National High School Exam

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diléia Aparecida MARTINS
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Brazilian Sign Language

Abstract The present work analyzes the access of deaf people fluent in Brazilian Sign Language in the National High School Exam, which was created to measure the performance based on the curriculum and on the High School guidelines, which acquired the purpose of providing the access of High school seniors to higher education. The methodological theoretical approach upon which this study is based is the qualitative research of exploratory nature. The sequential mixed method was used for the collection and analysis of qualitative data and, based on these, the quantitative analysis was performed. The results show an increase in the number of deaf participants in the exams and justify the offer of bilingual exams to measure learning.

The Status of Sign Language Instruction in Institutions of Higher Education: 1994-2004

2008 ◽  
Vol 153 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheryl B. Cooper ◽  
Joel I. Reisman ◽  
Douglas Watson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
The Status
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