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Title Worlds apart? : disability and foreign language learning / edited by Tammy Berberi, Elizabeth C. Hamilton, Ian M. Sutherland ; foreword by Sander L. Gilman
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrations
Contents Table of Contents -- Foreword by Sander L. Gilman -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Bridging Worlds Apart: Disability and Foreign Languages Where We Live and Learn � Tammy Berberi -- Teaching and Curricular Design -- Chapter 2: Teaching German to Students Who Are Blind: A Personal Essay on the Process of Inclusion � Elizabeth C. Hamilton -- Chapter 3: Everybody Wins: Teaching Deaf and Hearing Students Together � Ian M. Sutherland -- Chapter 4: Making a Difference: Evaluating, Modifying, and Creating Inclusive Foreign Language Activities � Teresa Cabal Krastel
Chapter 5: ASL: The Little Language That Could â€? Brenda Jo BrueggemannChapter 6: Teaching Foreign Languages to Students with Disabilities: Initiatives to Educate Faculty â€? Rasma Lazda-Cazers and Helga Thorson -- Technology -- Chapter 7: Incorporating Foreign Sign Language in Foreign Language Instruction for Deaf Students: Cultural and Methodological Rationale â€? Pilar PiÃ"ar, Donalda Ammons, and Facundo Montenegro
Chapter 8: In Dialogue with Michelle N. Abadia: My Life Journey Studying and Teaching with Adaptive Technology � Interviewed by Elizabeth C. Hamilton and Tammy BerberiChapter 9: New Technologies and Universal Design for Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom � Nicole Strangman, Anne Meyer Tracey Hall, and C. Patrick Proctor -- Disabilities Abroad -- Chapter 10: Cédez le passage: A Chronicle of Traveling in France with a Disability � Elizabeth Emery
Chapter 11: Awaiting a World Experience No Longer: It�s Time for All Students with Disabilities to Go Overseas � Michele Scheib and Melissa MitchellChapter 12: Dis/Abling the Narrative: The Case of Tombéza � Salwa Ali Benzahra -- Chapter 13: No One�s Perfect: Disability and Difference in Japan � Katharina Heyer -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Index
Summary '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 every step of the way
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
Students with disabilities.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Study & Teaching.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching
Students with disabilities
Form Electronic book
Author Berberi, Tammy, 1969-
Hamilton, Elizabeth C., 1965-
Sutherland, Ian M., 1956-
LC no. 2007024027
ISBN 9780300144994
0300144997
9786612352249
6612352248