1ST SYMPOSIUM IN APPLIED SIGN LINGUISTICS
'SIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING'
26TH SEPTEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINARS
Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol - U.K.
We are pleased to announce the 1st Applied Sign Linguistics Symposium,
organised
by the Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol - U.K.
Very little corresponding research has shown that sign language teaching and
learning has clear parallel teaching to language teaching research in terms
of
teaching methods employed (e.g. Communicative Language Teaching approaches)
and syllabus/curriculum development that has been followed. In addition,
major
advances in sign language research have altered the ways we teach and learn
sign
languages as second or/and first languages in schools, language programmes
of
Higher Institutions and lifelong learning programmes. Recent developments in
sign
linguistics research influence decisions made for the integration of
specific methods,
curricula and teaching materials for the learning and teaching of sign
languages.
The aim of the symposium is to tackle these issues and generate, for the
first time,
academic discussion over the emerging field of Applied Sign Linguistics. The
question that will lead our discussion is the following:
§ How can applied linguistic theory inform research and practice in the
teaching
and learning of sign languages?
Keynote Presenters
I. Professor Vivian Cook, Department of Education, Communication and
Language
Sciences, University of Newcastle - U.K.
II. Dr Richard Kiely, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol
-U.K.
Abstracts are welcome for oral, poster presentations and pre-conference
seminars
on the following areas:
1. Sign Language Teaching and Learning
2. Sign Language Acquisition as L1/L2
3. IT and sign language learning
4. Sign Language Testing and Evaluation
5. Sign Linguistics [Applied]

For further queries, contact me and follow the forthcoming updated
information on our website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/deaf/