Worlds apart? : disability and foreign language learning / edited by Tammy Berberi, Elizabeth C. Hamilton, Ian M. Sutherland ; foreword by Sander L. Gilman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berberi, Tammy, 1969-

Hamilton, Elizabeth C., 1965-

Sutherland, Ian M., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Students with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Today's foreign language teachers are increasingly expected to be skilled in addressing multiple intelligences and differing learning styles, yet no reliable resources exist that consolidate the best of what is known about the broad spectrum of disabilities that are already or soon to be in our classrooms. The first of its kind, Worlds Apart? Disability and Foreign Language Learning offers critical and practical essays with insights applicable across the language-teaching spectrum. Written in English, Worlds Apart? brings together scholars and teachers from around the world who examine foreign language education from general requirements through advanced literature and film courses to study abroad, showing how to enable the success of students with disabilities at every step of the way. Thought-provoking chapters explore the nature of language itself, the best avenues toward acquiring proficiency, and the lives of disabled people at home and abroad. Worlds Apart? Disability and Foreign Language Learning offers fresh, new perspectives on the inquiries into culture and diversity undertaken in the academy today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1. Bridging Worlds Apart: Disability and Foreign Languages Where We Live and Learn

CHAPTER 2. Teaching German to Students Who Are Blind: A Personal Essay on the Process of Inclusion

CHAPTER 3. Everybody Wins: Teaching Deaf and Hearing Students Together

CHAPTER 4. Making a Difference: Evaluating, Modifying, and Creating Inclusive Foreign Language Activities

CHAPTER 5. ASL: The Little Language That Could

CHAPTER 6. Teaching Foreign Languages to Students with Disabilities: Initiatives to Educate Faculty

CHAPTER 7. Incorporating Foreign Sign Language in Foreign Language Instruct ion for Deaf Students: Cultural and Methodological Rationale

CHAPTER 8. In Dialogue with Michelle N. Abadia: My Life Journey Studying and Teaching with Adaptive Technology

CHAPTER 9. New Technologies and Universal Design for Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom

CHAPTER 10. Cédez le passage: A Chronicle of Traveling in France with a Disability

CHAPTER 11. Awaiting a World Experience No Longer : It 's Time for All Students with Disabilities to Go Overseas

CHAPTER 12. Dis/Abling the Narrative: The Case of Tombéza

CHAPTER 13. No One's Perfect: Disability and Difference in Japan

Abbreviations

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612352249

9781282352247

1282352245

9780300144994

0300144997

OCLC:

923593316