32.889, Books: Learning to learn space: Boers-Visker

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 22:35:19
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Learning to learn space: Boers-Visker

 


Title: Learning to learn space 
Subtitle: A study into the SL2 acquisition process of adult learners of Sign Language
of the Netherlands 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/learning-to-use-space-a-study-into-the-sl2-acquisition-process-of-adult-learners-of-sign-language-of-the-netherlands-a-study-into-the-sl2-acquisition-process-of-adult-learners-of-sign-language-of-the- 


Author: Eveline Boers-Visker

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933547 Pages: 378 Price: Europe EURO 38


Abstract:

This dissertation addresses the acquisition of Sign Language of the
Netherlands (Nederlandse Gebarentaal, NGT) in adult learners with a spoken
language background. These learners acquire a new language in a new modality,
the visual-spatial modality, which differs from the oral-auditory modality of
their native language, Dutch. One of the modality-specific linguistic features
attested in signed languages, but not in spoken languages, is the use of space
to express grammatical and topographical relations. Our knowledge of the
acquisition of linguistic devices related to the use of space (e.g., pointing
signs, agreement verbs, classifier predicates and signs marked for location),
and of appropriate pedagogical practices to teach these structures, is very
limited. This thesis contributes to filling this gap by improving our
understanding of processes underlying the acquisition of these devices in
L2-learners of NGT, and by investigating whether certain pedagogical
practices, which have been shown to be effective for L2-learners of a spoken
language, would facilitate the acquisition of these devices. Four studies were
carried out. The first three studies, in which we analyze (semi-)natural and
elicited production data of novel NGT learners who were followed
longitudinally, serve as basis for the fourth study, in which we investigate
whether learners benefit from pedagogical interventions aimed at focusing
their attention on the form-meaning mappings of one of the devices under
investigation, agreement verb forms. This dissertation provides valuable
information for practitioners in the field, and adds to our understanding of
the intersecting fields of sign language linguistics, second language
acquisition and pedagogy, as well as gesture studies.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Dutch Sign Language (dse)


Written In: English  (eng)

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