Ignoring Second Modality (M2) Beyond Second Language (L2) in Turkish Sign Language Teaching

Applying Innovative Teaching Methods in a Second Language Classroom

This article focuses on the level of using creative teaching methodologies in second language classroom as studied by the researcher. A series of qualitative methods such as using newspaper, media, movies, interpreting advertisements, and creating Sandblot can be employed in the classroom in order to develop students’ second language learning ability. The article focuses on how teach...

Professionalizing Second' Language Teaching

Growing migration and mobility have led to an increased demand for linguistic research over the past few decades, initiating the rapid growth of most subdisci' plines in the field, especially sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics. There is particularly intense research activity in the interdiscipline of second language acquisition, which occupies a position at the crossroads of li...

Sign Language Prosodic Cues in First and Second Language Acquisition

In this paper the prosodic structure of American Sign Language (ASL) narratives will be analyzed in three groups: two groups of native (L1) signers and one group of highly proficient, second language (L2) signers. The results of this study show that the performance in the native hearing, bilingual group is due to both to their ASL language experience, and, under certain conditions, to their exp...

A Tutor For Teaching English As A Second Language For Deaf Users Of American Sign Language

In this paper we introduce a computerassisted writing tool for deaf users of American Sign Language (ASL). The novel aspect of this system (under development) is that it views the task faced by these writers as one of second language acquisition. We indicate how this a ects the system design and the system's correction and explanation strategies, and present our methodology for modeling the sec...

Bilingual Sign Language Dictionary To Learn The Second Sign Language Without Learning A Target Spoken Language