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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Adam, <BR>
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ASL is taught as a language in high schools in a number of cities in Canada for credit. Some folks who may be sources of information for that are Len Mitchell (Winnipeg) and Linda Cundy (Edmonton). I’ll find out more and send to you directly. <BR>
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Terry<BR>
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On 11-03-31 10:13 PM, "Adam Schembri" <<a href="a.schembri@latrobe.edu.au">a.schembri@latrobe.edu.au</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>A colleague is preparing a response to a recent Australian government paper on teaching languages other than English in primary and secondary schools here which lists a range of spoken languages as 'priority languages' for teaching, but does not list Auslan among those languages (a change from a former government language policy in which it was included as a 'prority language'). She asked me to ask colleagues on the SLLING-L: is/are your national sign language(s) taught to hearing children in primary/elementary and secondary/high schools in your country?<BR>
Does anyone know where my colleague can obtain information about sign language instruction in schools in other countries (NB: we are not looking for information about the use of sign language as a language of instruction in schools/units/programmes for deaf children)?<BR>
Thanks,<BR>
Adam<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Dr. Terry Janzen, Associate Professor and Department Head<BR>
Department of Linguistics<BR>
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University of Manitoba<BR>
Winnipeg<BR>
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