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LINGUIST List 20.433

Tue Feb 10 2009

Confs: Applied Linguistics, Sign Languages/UK

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        1.    Maria Mertzani, 1st Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics
Message 1: 1st Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics
Date: 09-Feb-2009
From: Maria Mertzani <M.Mertzanibristol.ac.uk>
Subject: 1st Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics
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1st Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics

Date: 24-Sep-2009 - 26-Sep-2009
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Contact: Maria Mertzani
Contact Email: M.Mertzanibristol.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Sign Language
Meeting Description:

1st Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics
'Sign Language Learning and Teaching'
24-26 September 2009
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 second language teaching research. 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 David Little, Centre for Language and Communication Studies,
Trinity College, Ireland.
II. Dr Richard Kiely, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol -U.K.
III. Sandra Smith, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol - U.K.
IV. Linda Day, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol - U.K.

British Sign Language (BSL) and English are the official languages of the
symposium.

Symposium Organiser
Maria Mertzani, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of
Bristol, U.K.

Programme Committee
Jim Kyle
Lorna Allsop
Michiko Kaneko
Gerald Clibbon
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