28.334, FYI: Public Talk: Learning BSL as a Second Language

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Subject: 28.334, FYI: Public Talk: Learning BSL as a Second Language

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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:22:13
From: Christos Pliatsikas [c.pliatsikas at reading.ac.uk]
Subject: Public Talk: Learning BSL as a Second Language

 Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM), The University of Reading

CeLM Seminar Series

Learning British Sign Language as a second language in adulthood

by Chloë Marshall, University College London, Institute of Education

Date: Wed 18th January 2017
Time: 15h00 – 16h30
Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights campus, Palmer-104

Many hearing adults choose to learn BSL as a second language for various
reasons, including having a deaf child or wanting a career as an interpreter.
However, almost nothing is known about how hearing adults learn to sign and
whether learning a second language in a different modality from the first
differs from learning a second spoken language. In this talk I present some
initial research which investigates how adult learners of BSL use co-speech
gesture as a substrate for transfer into sign, and what some of the challenges
for learners of BSL are.

Free event - all welcome!

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics



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