Teaching and Learning Signed Languages

1. Introduction
David McKee, Russell S. Rosen, Rachel McKee

Section I. Development and Impacts of Sign Language Teaching

2. Swedish Sign Language as a Second Language: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Anna-Lena Nilsson, Krister Schönström

3. Developing Deaf Communities through Sign Language Teacher Training
David McKee, James Woodward

4. Educating the Trainers of British Sign Language Tutors: Documenting the Educational Experience
Gary A. Quinn, Graham H. Turner

Section II. Innovations in Using Digital Tools in Teaching and Learning

5. Using Corpus-Based Research to Inform the Teaching of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) as a Second Language
Donovan Cresdee, Trevor Johnston

6. eLCA — An e-learning Unit for Acquiring Constructed Action
Renate Fischer, Anke Müller

7. Transcription as a Tool for Increasing Metalinguistic Awareness in Learners of German Sign Language as a Second Language
Thomas Kaul, Reiner Griebel, Emily Kaufmann

Section III. Learners and Contexts for Learning

8. Native Language, Target Language, and the Teaching and Learning of American Sign Language Vocabulary
Russell S. Rosen, Mary-Kate DeLouise, Amanda T. Boyle, Kerry Daley

9. Hearing Parents as Plurilingual Learners of ASL
Kristin Snoddon

10. Learner Autonomy in New Zealand Sign Language Interpreting Students
Lynette Pivac

11. Teaching British Sign Language as a Second Language to Deaf Sign Language Users: Insights from the Signs2Go Online Course
Jens Hessmann, Liesbeth Pyfers

Section IV. Assessment

12. Formative Assessment for Student Progress and Program Improvement in Sign Language as L2 Programs
David H. Smith, Jeffrey E. Davis

Keywords: Education, Language Teaching, Language Education, Learning & Instruction, Sign Language, Teaching and Teacher Education