American Sign Language as a Foreign Language Requirement: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Standards

This paper examined the arguments for American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language and the development of a new ASL curriculum to fulfill a foreign language requirement at Miami University. Due to the large number of individuals in the United States using ASL as a language and the steady increase in ASL course enrollments at colleges and universities since 1990, an argument can be made that Miami University is behind the times in not offering ASL as a foreign language. This paper used primary sources from peer-reviewed literature, books, and current organizational websites to not only look at the importance of ASL instruction at institutions of higher learning but also create a new curriculum based on language learning pedagogy and new foreign language proficiency standards.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech Pathology and Audiology

Grantor dc:publisher

Miami University

Year dc:date

2013

Author dc:creator

• DiLoreto, Elizabeth

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hutchinson-Marron, Kathleen

• Education
• Foreign Language
• Curriculum Development
• Language
• American Sign Language
• ASL
• curriculum
• pedagogy
• standards
• Deaf culture

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
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Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1364150201

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:miami1364150201