Second Language Learning Data Analysis

Encourages the reader to consider the young child's signed language acquisition and subsequent reading development. Anchored in the toddler and school-pupil phase, the development path between these two phases traces out the routes that deaf children follow from one day to the other.

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These cassettes are part of a pack that encourages the reader to consider the young child's signed language acquisition and subsequent reading development. It proposes that theories of language acquisition and reading development must account for signed languages to understand the universal, the modality-specific, and the language-specific characteristics of language acquisition and the learning mechanisms that account for reading. Theories of language acquisition and reading have traditionally been derived from studies of spoken language and unintentionally excluded signed languages. This produces theoretical principles based on the psycholinguistic mechanisms related to hearing and the articulation of speech, principles that do not necessarily apply to seeing and the gesticulation of signs. By presenting a new set of signed language studies for consideration, the set advances language, research and theory.