The Case for Sign Bilingualism in Irish Deaf Education

Sign bilingual education, for the purpose of this article, is defined as a program at primary or secondary school where sign language is used as the first language of instruction with spoken/written language (e.g. English) as the second language (Knoors et al., 2014). International research on sign...

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Main Author: Noel O'Connell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics 2021-11-01
Series:Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/1275