Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education

This book is the first edited international volume focused on critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education, which encompasses education in and out of schools and across the lifespan. It explores issues such as bimodal bilingualism, translanguaging, teacher education, sign language interpreting and parent sign language learning.

About the author

Kristin Snoddon is an Associate Professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. She is co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education (with Joanne C. Weber, Multilingual Matters, 2021) and Sign Language Ideologies in Practice (with Annelies Kusters, Mara Green and Erin Moriarty, Mouton De Gruyter, 2020).
Joanne C. Weber is Canada Research Chair in Deaf Education Tier II, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Canada. Her research interests include language and literacy education, arts-based research, deaf education, posthumanism, applied linguistics and sign language studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kristin Snoddon (Editor), Snoddon Kristin (Editor), Joanne Weber (Editor), Joanne C. Weber (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781800410749
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-074-9
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, EDUCATION / Special Education / Physical Disabilities, Teaching of physically disabled students, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication, Education of bilingual or multilingual students