Cognitive Strategies for the Development of Visuo-Gestural and Motor Abilities in Hearing Adult Learners of Spanish Sign Language as Second Language

Autor/a: RODRÍGUEZ REDONDO, Ana Laura; DÍAZ-WENGELIN, Sarah; PIRIZ, Gemma; CARMONA, Mª José; GONZÁLEZ, Carmen; FERNÁNDEZ, Gloria
Año: 2008
Editorial: University of Duisburg-Essen
Tipo de código: Copyright
Soporte: Digital

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The goal of this paper is the presentation of the different strategies used in the teaching of Spanish Sign Language to hearing adults who learn Spanish Sign Language as a second language. Specifically, hearing adults have to face significant problems related to underdeveloped visuo-perceptual and motor abilities. Learners have to learn to “see the language” (Wilcox and Wilcox, 1991), but also they have to manually produce and spatially organize the language. From a cognitive point of view, the strategies developed by the group aim at the enhancement of the neurocognitive ability of hearing people for the production of a blending space (Liddell, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003) and the use of signing space topographically and referentially.

En: 33rd International LAUD Symposium. Cognitive Approaches to Second/Foreign Language Processing: Theory and Pedagogy.

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