How Might an L1 Writing System for Sign Language Facilitate L2 Literacy for Deaf Learners?
Room: CL 306 Presenter: Tamar Bernfeld, University of Pittsburgh It is well established that deaf students struggle learning to read and write oral-based languages such as English. Despite the various methods educators have used in an attempt to help deaf students master reading and writing, no one method has proven successful. A number of notation systems have been proposed to record signed languages. I will review two of these systems and propose that learning to read such a notation system might help facilitate L2 literacy in an oral-based language. Title: Cultural, Political, and Ethical Implications of the Teaching of English as a Missionary Language as Presented in the Popular and Academic Press Room: CL 313 Presenter: Tom McLaren, Indiana University of Pennsylvania This paper examines the presentation of Teaching English as Missionary Language (recently publicized by Pennycook and Coutand-Marin) in the popular and academic press. Examines the cultural, political, and ethical imp
