Series | SAIL
Edited book | Inclusive Linguistic Education
Chapter | Imparare guardando, insegnare mostrando

Imparare guardando, insegnare mostrando

Peculiarità e limiti nella didattica di una lingua non vocale e non scritta

Over the last few years, Italian sign language courses have attracted a widespread and growing interest from hearing learners who, while not familiar with deafness, are choosing, more and more, to embrace this language and culture, out of mere curiosity or for professional purposes. Three issues will be discussed in this paper, set out in three paragraphs, which in the author’s opinion are some of the most compelling in the teaching and learning of LIS as a second language. The issues under discussion are 1) the repercussions that the absence of a writing system has on the teaching and learning of a language; 2) the metalinguistic awareness and consciousness in a not yet standardized language; 3) the approaches, methods and materials that are best suited to the teaching of a sign language.


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Submitted: May 27, 2020 | Published: Feb. 23, 2021 | Language: it

Keywords Hearing learners of a signed language Approach in teaching sign language Italian Sign Language (LIS) Teaching an unstandardized language Learning without a written system

Copyright © 2021 Maria Roccaforte. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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