Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education

This book is the first edited international volume focused on critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education, which encompasses education in and out of schools and across the lifespan. The book provides a critical overview and snapshot of the use of sign languages in education for deaf children today and explores contemporary issues in education for deaf children such as bimodal bilingualism, translanguaging, teacher education, sign language interpreting and parent sign language learning. The research presented in this book marks a significant development in understanding deaf children’s language use and provides insights into the flexibility and pragmatism of young deaf people and their families’ communicative practices. It incorporates the views of young deaf people and their parents regarding their language use that are rarely visible in the research to date.Additional ISBNs9781800410763, 9781800410770Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education 1st Edition and published by Multilingual Matters (NBN). ISBNs for Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education are 9781800410756, 1800410751 and the print ISBNs are 9781800410732, 1800410735. Additional ISBNs include 9781800410763, 9781800410770.