Adaptation of a vocabulary test from British Sign Language to American Sign Language
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Adapting the Assessing British Sign Language Development: Receptive Skills Test into American sign language.
Signed languages continue to be a key element of deaf education programs that incorporate a bilingual approach to teaching and learning. In order to monitor the success of bilingual deaf education programs, and in particular to monitor the progress of children acquiring signed language, it is essential to develop an assessment tool of signed language skills. Although researchers have developed ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language Testing
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0265-5322,1477-0946
DOI: 10.1177/0265532215575627