Using Online Glossing Lessons For Accelerated Instruction In ASL For Preservice Deaf Education Majors
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 6-1-2007
Department
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Abstract
Teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students must serve as language models for their students. However, preservice deaf education teachers typically have at most only four semesters of American Sign Language (ASL) training. How can their limited ASL instructional time be used to increase their proficiency? Studies involving deaf and hard of hearing students have revealed that glosses (written equivalents of ASL sentences) can serve as "bridges" between ASL and English. The study investigated whether glossing instruction can facilitate hearing students' learning of ASL. A Web site was developed in which ASL glossing rules were explained and glossing exercises provided. Posttest scores showed the experimental group improving from 39% to 71% on ASL grammar knowledge. These findings indicate that online glossing lessons may provide the means to obtain ASL skills more readily, thus preparing deaf education teachers to serve as ASL language models.
Publication Title
American Annals of the Deaf
Volume
152
Issue
3
First Page
331
Last Page
343
Recommended Citation
Buisson, G. J.
(2007). Using Online Glossing Lessons For Accelerated Instruction In ASL For Preservice Deaf Education Majors. American Annals of the Deaf, 152(3), 331-343.
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