Deafness, spoken language acquisition and learning English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Books
Baker, Colin
Parents' and teachers' guide to bilingualism
Multilingual Matters, 1995
ISBN 1853592641
A general book on bilingual approaches to education and raising children with more than one language.
CERES
Learning in 2+ languages: Ensuring effective inclusion for bilingual learners: Good practice for teachers, educational establishments and local authorities
Learning and Teaching Scotland, 2005
ISBN 9781843991144
The purpose of this document is to identify good practice in supporting children who are accessing the curriculum through English as an additional language (EAL).
https://education.gov.scot/improvement/Documents/modlang5-learning-in-two-plus-languages.pdf
Duncan, Deirdre M
Working with bilingual language disability
Chapman & Hall, 1989
ISBN 0412339404
Deals with the theoretical and practical issues involved in working with language handicapped children from bilingual communities. Series: Therapy in practice.
Hall, Deryn
Assessing the needs of bilingual pupils: living in two languages
David Fulton, 1995
ISBN 1853463329
A guide for all teachers working in multilingual and multicultural schools where bilingual pupils' learning is causing concern.
Israelite, Neita; Ewoldt, Carolyn; Hoffmeister, Robert
Bilingual/bicultural education for deaf and hard-of-hearing students: a review of the literature on the effects of native sign language on majority language acquisition
Ministry of Education, nd
A literature review of the issues of native-language acquisition in deaf children and its relation to proficiency in a majority language.
Knight, Pamela & Swanwick, Ruth
Working with deaf pupils: sign bilingual policy into practice
David Fulton, 2002
ISBN 1853467936
For professionals working with sign bilingual deaf children. Practical teaching strategies are suggested and evaluated.
Koda, Keiko
Reading and language learning
Blackwell, 2007
ISBN 9781405175746
This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between reading and language learning. Includes topics such as how second-language reading is constrained by linguistic demands and how bilingualism contributes to literacy development.
Mahshie, Shawn Neal
Educating deaf children bilingually
Gallaudet University Press, 1995
ISBN 0880952016
Marschark, Marc; Tang, Gladys; Knoors, Harry
Bilingualism and bilingual deaf education
Oxford University, 2014
ISBN 9780199371815
Offers both literature reviews and new findings across disciplines from neuropsychology to child development and from linguistics to cognitive psychology.
Pickersgill, Miranda & Gregory, Susan
Sign bilingualism: a model
LASER, 1998
A sign bilingual model is described, aimed at those who wish to move towards establishing sign bilingual education.
Plaza-Pust, Carolina & Morales-Lopez, Esperanza (eds)
Sign bilingualism: language development, interaction and maintenance in sign language contact situations
John Benjamins, 2008
ISBN 9789027241498
Looks at the factors involved in sign bilingualism including developing language skills, education, social contexts, planning and interpreting issues.
Swanwick, Ruth & Gregory, Susan
Sign bilingual education: policy and practice
Douglas McLean, 2007
ISBN 9780946252664
An update to 'Sign Bilingualism - a model' by Pickersgill and Gregory to cover the evolution of sign bilingual education over the last 10 years.
Tabors, Patton O
One child, two languages: a guide for preschool educators of children learning English as a second language
Paul H Brookes, 1997
ISBN 155766272X
A guide for preschool educators of children learning English as a second language
Articles
Cannon, Joanna E & Guardino, Caroline
Literacy strategies for deaf/hard-of-hearing English language learners: where do we begin?
Deafness and Education International
June 2012, Vol 14 (2), p78-99
North American study of literacy strategies for deaf children whose home language is other than English or ASL. This study concentrates on children who were born in countries where English is not the primary language and who may find themselves needing to use between 2-4 different languages.
Daigle, Daniel ... [et al]
Syllabic processing in deaf readers of French: a second-language question?
Deafness and Education International
March 2010, Vol 12 (1), p16-33
Looks at the differences between deaf learners (living in French-speaking Canada) reading in French and those reading French as a second language.
Emery, Steven D
Citizenship and sign bilingualism: '... there is nothing wrong with being bilingual ... it's a positive and fantastic thing!'
Deafness and Education International
2007, Vol 9 (4), p173-186
Looks at the emphasis in the curriculum for citizenship issues and relates this to sign bilingual pupils. Special Issue: Sign Language and Deaf Education.
Emmorey, Karen; Petrich, Jennifer A F; Gollan, Tamar H
Bimodal bilingualism and the frequency-lag hypothesis
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
January 2013, Vol 18 (1), p1-11
There is a hypothesis that bilingual people exhibit slower word retrieval and this study looks at how this applies to bilingual sign language users.
http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/
Ford, Hayley & Kent, Sarah
Experiences of bilingualism within the deaf and the hearing world: the views of d/Deaf young people
Deafness and Education International
March 2013, Vol 15 (1), p29-51
Study explored sign bilingualism and the social and emotional experiences for deaf bilingual young people (bilingual using spoken English and BSL or SSE.)
Gregory, Sue; Smith, Sandra; Wells, Alison
Language and identity in sign bilingual deaf children
Deafness and Education
October 1997, Vol 21 (3), p31-38
A paper based on interviews with deaf children on their ideas of deafness and hearing and discusses their understanding of the differences between English and sign language.
Hermans, Daan; Knoors, Harry; Ormel, Ellen; Verhoeven, Ludo
Modeling reading vocabulary learning in deaf children in bilingual education programs
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
Spring 2008, Vol 13 (2), p155-174
The authors present an adapted version of Jiang's developmental model which measures vocabulary development in a second language for use with deaf children who are being taught bilingually.
http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/
Knight, Pam
Bilingual nursery provision: a challenging start
Deafness and Education
October 1997, Vol 21 (3), p20-30
Looks at one model of bilingual nursery provision and assesses how effectively it is meeting its aims.
Koutsoubou, Maria; Herman, Rosalind; Woll, Bencie
Bilingual language profiles of deaf students: an analysis of the written narratives of three deaf writers with different language proficiencies
Deafness and Education International
2006, Vol 8 (3), p144-165
Looks at three deaf students' written literacy skills.
Kyle, Jim
Living and learning bilingually: deaf experiences and possibilities
Deaf Worlds
2005, Vol 21 (3), p73-90
Describes how early language choices and educational policies affect the lifestyles of deaf people.
Pickersgill, Miranda
Towards a model of bilingual education for deaf children
Deafness and Education
October 1997, Vol 21 (3), p10-19
Looks at policy issues which authorities will need to consider when implementing a bilingual approach for teaching deaf pupils.
Rathmann, Christian; Mann, Wolfgang; Morgan, Gary
Narrative structure and narrative development in deaf children
Deafness and Education International
2007, Vol 9 (4), p187-196
Looks at the story writing aspect of literacy in sign bilingual deaf pupils. Special Issue: Sign Language and Deaf Education
Singleton, Jenny L ... [et al]
Vocabulary use by low, moderate and high ASL-proficient writers compared to hearing ESL and monolingual speakers
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
Winter 2004, Vol 9 (1), p86-103
The written vocabulary of ASL users is compared with children who use English as a second language as well as those who only speak English.
http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/
Sutherland, Hilary; Young, Alys
I 'Hate English! Why? ...' Signs and English from deaf children's perception. Results from a preliminary study of deaf children's experiences of sign bilingual education
Deafness and Education International
2007, Vol 9 (4), p197-213
Deaf children share their experiences of sign bilingual education and what it means to them to sign and to use English. Special Issue: Sign Language and Deaf Education
Swanwick, Ruth
Sign bilingual deaf children's approaches to writing: individual strategies for bridging the gap between BSL and written English
Deafness and Education International
2002, Vol 4 (2), p65-83
Individual case studies are presented of deaf children's approaches to translating BSL into written English.
Swanwick, Ruth A
Learning English as a second language: opportunities and challenges for sign bilingual deaf children
Deafness and Education
June 1998, Vol 22 (2), p3-9
Explores the key issues involved in teaching English as a second language to sign bilingual deaf pupils.
Williams, Joshua T & Newman, Sharlene D
Impacts of visual sonority and handshape markedness on second language learning of American Sign Language
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
Apr 2016, Vol 21 (2), p171-186
Learners of ASL as an additional language, where the other languages are spoken, were studied.
http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/
Websites
NALDIC
NALDIC: the national subject association for EAL
NALDIC
[Accessed: 27/04/2018]
NALDIC is the national subject association for English as an additional language. NALDIC provides a welcoming, vibrant, professional forum for learning more about English as an Additional Language (EAL) and bilingual learners in schools.
https://naldic.org.uk/