Challenges of Learning American Sign Language (ASL)
In this lesson, you will choose two articles to read and summarize. Please choose articles that will strengthen your research proposal, and report results from an empirical study. In ideal circumstances, you would choose articles that address ASL teaching and learning, but due to the small number of articles available in this field, you may have to look outside of this scope and then apply findings to your population of interest. Select articles that will strengthen your research proposal, contributing to your literature review or methods sections. Summaries of these articles will be added to the annotated bibliography.
When you read and summarize these articles, respond to the following questions about the article you are reviewing.
Describe the data analysis methods used by the researchers.
If the analysis was quantitative, how was the significance, or non-significance, of the results reported? Provide examples.
Describe the coding system that was utilized. Did the researcher develop a new scheme, or use/adapt an existing one? Was the system appropriate for capturing the construct under investigation? Why or why not?
If a qualitative analysis was conducted, did the authors’ literature review guide the coding decisions? If so, how?
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Kemp, M. (1998). Why is learning American sign language a challenge? American Annals of the Deaf, 143(3), 255–259. https://doi.org/10.1353/aad.2012.0157
In this article, Kemp (1998) discusses the complexities of learning American Sign Language (ASL) and challenges the common misconception that it is a quickly learned, picture-like language. Drawing on existing literature, the author contends that ASL is a complete and complex language that requires extensive exposure and practice to achieve mastery. The author argues that, despite the recent explosion of interest in ASL and the unprecedented number of schools and agencies now offering ASL classes, there is still a lack of consensus on where the language falls on a learnability continuum for native English speakers. Kemp (1998) ultimately pinpoints factors such as social dominance patterns and attitude, transfer of one’s native language (L1) into the grammar of one’s target language (L2), congruence...
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