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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Times;color:black;background:white">In 2012, a study to investigate the use of new technologies in sign language testing has been conducted. Six years after this survey, Tobias Haug, University of Applied
Sciences for Special Needs Education Zurich (HfH), and Wolfgang Mann, University of Roehampton, London, would like to conduct another survey.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Times;color:black;background:white">Our goal is not to replicate the 2012 study only, but to expand the focus by also including questions related to new technologies used in sign language assessment. The
results of this survey will help us to get a clearer picture of the extent to which new technologies are used in our field and also to strengthen an international collaboration on this issue. The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete. This survey will
be online until<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>July 15, 2018.</b></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Times;color:black;background:white">Here is the </span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><a href="https://signlanguages.eu/index.php/377714?lang=en">link to the survey</a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Times;color:black;background:white"> (<u><a href="https://signlanguages.eu/index.php/377714?lang=en">https://signlanguages.eu/index.php/377714?lang=en</a>)</u></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Times;color:black;background:white">If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:survey@signlanguage.ch">survey@signlanguage.ch</a>.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Times;color:black;background:white">Thank you very much in advance for your collaboration.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Times;color:black;background:white">Tobias Haug & Wolfgang Mann</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">Tobias Haug, Prof. Dr., MA in Language Testing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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