On The Relation Between The Signing And Reading Skills Of Deaf Bilinguals  

Oleh:

Hermans, Daan ; Ormel, Ellen ; Knoors, Harry

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 13 no. 2 (2010), page 187-199.
Topik: bilingualism; deafness; linguistic interdependence
Fulltext: Vol. 13, No. 2, March 2010, 187-199.pdf (164.54KB)

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In this paper, we will describe the theoretical underpinning of many bilingual education programs for deaf children: Cummins’ Linguistic Interdependence theory. Then, we will review some of the studies that have been conducted on the relation between reading and signing skills, and discuss how difficult it is to interpret their findings within Cummins’ framework. We will present new data on the relation between deaf children’s vocabulary knowledge and morpho-syntactic skills in Sign Language of the Netherlands and spoken Dutch that imply that Cummins’ theory may be too narrow as an educational model of bilingual programs for deaf children.

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