Learning to use space: A study into the SL2 acquisition process of adult learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands

Boers-Visker, Eveline

doi:10.1075/sll.00062.boe

Abstract published In: Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 24:2 (2021) ► pp.285–294

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Learning to use space

A study into the SL2 acquisition process of adult learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands

Eveline Boers-Visker | Utrecht University of Applied Sciences

Published online: 11 June 2021

https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00062.boe

Article outline

Context of the study
Use of space
Study 1: (Semi-)natural production data (Chapter 3)
Studies 2 and 3: Elicitation study (Chapters 4 and 5)
Study 4: Intervention study (Chapter 6)
Major conclusions
References

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Boers-Visker, Eveline & Pfau, Roland. 2020. Space oddities: The acquisition of agreement verbs by L2 learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands. Modern Language Journal 104(4). 757–780.

Boers-Visker, Eveline. 2021. On the acquisition of complex classifier constructions by L2 learners of a sign language. Language Teaching Research (online first).

Loew, Ruth C. 1984. Roles and reference in American Sign Language: A developmental perspective. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota PhD dissertation.

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