This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Abstract The ability of learners of American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language (FL) to extend their education outside of classrooms is ...

Not so long ago, deaf children were punished in the UK for using sign language in the classroom. Recounting his experience in the 1960s, one deaf person told one of my colleagues many years later: “I ...

VINELAND — Although the classroom was silent, students were abuzz with conversation, interacting with each other through American Sign language (ASL). They had to stay quiet because a television crew ...