Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
3 results found in sign language education.
- ASLTA (American Sign Language Teachers Association)
- A US-based professional association founded to support and certify ASL educators. ASLTA publishes curriculum standards, offers certification at multiple levels (Provisional, Qualified, Professional, M…
- L1 and L2 Language Learners (First Language Learner, Second Language Learner, Native Signer, L1/L2)
- In language pedagogy, L1 refers to a learner's first or native language and L2 to a language learned after L1 is established. In ASL education, L1 learners are typically Deaf children of Deaf parents …
- Receptive and Expressive Skills (Receptive Signing, Expressive Signing, Receptive Skills, Expressive Skills)
- In language learning, receptive skills are the ability to understand a language — reading and listening in spoken languages, watching and comprehending signing in sign languages — while expressive ski…