02343cam a22003492u 4500001000800000005001700008007001400025008004100039035002000080035001200100037001900112040002700131091000800158100002900166245007000195260006800265300001000333520112500343533008101468650002501549650002801574650002901602650004801631650003101679650002101710650003301731650002601764650003001790710005301820856007801873984004201951520737520110625213614.0he u||024||||080220s1970 xxu ||| b ||| | eng d 9(ericd)ED037719 a5207375 aED037719bERIC aericdbengcericddMvI amfm1 aStokoe, William C.,cJr.14aThe Study of Sign Languageh[microform] /cWilliam C. Stokoe, Jr. a[Washington, D.C.] :bDistributed by ERIC Clearinghouse,c1970. a41 p. aIn this paper the author takes a positive not a negative view of sign language. It is the center of attention, not as an object of interest to the specialist in language, but as the central feature in the complex sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic system that makes the deaf person part of general American culture and at the same time part of a special group. To see sign language in this way the author first examines the ways language may be presented to the eye instead of to the ear and points out the contrasts and parallels between speech and sign language. He then considers the relation of sign language to the education of the deaf in the light of bilingualism. Finally, he looks at steps that concerned teachers can take to apply research of their own of the most practical kind. The author states that sign language cannot be learned as a living, working language from these pages but hopes that teachers and educators reading them may find a new understanding of what this language is like, of how it relates to English, and of its importance in the intellectual development of the deaf child. (Author/DO) aMicrofiche.b[Washington D.C.]:cERIC Clearinghouseemicrofiches : positive.07aBilingualism.2ericd07aFinger Spelling.2ericd07aSociolinguistics.2ericd07aTransformational Generative Grammar.2ericd17aClassroom Research.2ericd17aDeafness.2ericd17aManual Communication.2ericd17aSign Language.2ericd17aSpecial Education.2ericd2 aERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.41uhttp://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED037719 aANLcmc 2253 ED037719d77000000047584