Worlds Apart? : Disability and Foreign Language Learning

by Edited by Tammy Berberi, Elizabeth C. Hamilton, and Ian M. Sutherland

• ISBN13: 9780300116304
• ISBN10: 0300116306
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-01-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

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 Learningoffers 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 Learningoffers fresh, new perspectives on the inquiries into culture and diversity undertaken in the academy today.

Author Biography

Tammy Berberi is assistant professor of French, University of Minnesota, Morris. Elizabeth Hamilton is associate professor of German, Oberlin College. Ian Sutherland is associate professor of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Gallaudet University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Bridging Worlds Apart: Disability and Foreign Languages Where We Live and Learn	p. 1
Teaching and Curricular Design
Teaching German to Students Who Are Blind: A Personal Essay on the Process of Inclusion	p. 23
Everybody Wins: Teaching Deaf and Hearing Students Together	p. 42
Making a Difference: Evaluating, Modifying, and Creating Inclusive Foreign Language Activities	p. 70
ASL: The Little Language That Could	p. 93
Teaching Foreign Languages to Students with Disabilities: Initiatives to Educate Faculty	p. 107
Technology
Incorporating Foreign Sign Language in Foreign Language Instruction for Deaf Students: Cultural and Methodological Rationale	p. 137
In Dialogue with Michelle N. Abadia: My Life Journey Studying and Teaching with Adaptive Technology	p. 151
New Technologies and Universal Design for Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom	p. 164
Disabilities Abroad
Cedez le passage: A Chronicle of Traveling in France with a Disability	p. 181
Awaiting a World Experience No Longer: It's Time for All Students with Disabilities to Go Overseas	p. 202
Dis/Abling the Narrative: The Case of Tombeza	p. 219
No One's Perfect: Disability and Difference in Japan	p. 232
Abbreviations	p. 253
List of Contributors	p. 255
Index	p. 259
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