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  2. Sign Assisted Instruction Programme - Wikipedia

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    Promote atmosphere of learning sign language; Support learning of sign language by relatives of deaf students; Provide deaf students and special needs teaching staff with channels for learning sign language to assist in learning and teaching; From February 2015 to July 2017, a two-year plan is carried out. The goals are: Optimize visual sign ...

  3. List of most commonly learned second languages in the United ...

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    American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). February 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 17, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2015. ^ "Others" includes (in order of quantity) Native American languages, Korean, Filipino, Arabic, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Hebrew, Polish, Turkish, Swahili and Hindi.

  4. Etiquette - Wikipedia

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    Etiquette ( / ˈɛtikɛt, - kɪt /) is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a society, a social class, or a social group. In modern English usage, the French ...

  5. Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Wikipedia

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    The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc (RID) is a non-profit organization founded on June 16, 1964, and incorporated in 1972, that seeks to uphold standards, ethics, and professionalism for American Sign Language interpreters. [ 1] RID is currently a membership organization. The organization grants credentials earned by interpreters who ...

  6. Language acquisition by deaf children - Wikipedia

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    Language acquisition by deaf children. Language acquisition is a natural process in which infants and children develop proficiency in the first language or languages that they are exposed to. The process of language acquisition is varied among deaf children. Deaf children born to deaf parents are typically exposed to a sign language at birth ...

  7. Nicaraguan Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Nicaragua. Region. The Managua region and spreading throughout the country. Native speakers. 3,000 (1997) [ 1] Language family. Deaf-community sign language: developed as a creole language from home and idioglossic sign, with the addition of an ASL -influenced manual alphabet. Language codes. ISO 639-3.

  8. Manually coded English - Wikipedia

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    Manually Coded English systems. Manually Coded English (MCE) is the result of language planning efforts in multiple countries, especially the United States in the 1970s. Four systems were developed in attempts to represent spoken English manually; Seeing Essential English (also referred to as Morphemic Signing System (MSS) or SEE-1), Signing Exact English (SEE-2 or SEE), Linguistics of Visual ...

  9. Language-learning aptitude - Wikipedia

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    Appearance. hide. Language learning aptitude refers to the "prediction of how well, relative to other individuals, an individual can learn a foreign language in a given amount of time and under given conditions". [1] Foreign language aptitude itself has been defined as a set of cognitive abilities which predicts L2 learning rate, or how fast ...