Organisation of Conferences and Seminars

Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia 2010 (Hong Kong)

Date: 28/01/2010 - 30/01/2010

A 3-day international conference entitled ‘Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia’ was held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) from 28 to 30 January 2010. Three keynote speakers gave their presentations at the conference. They were Prof. Karen Emmorey, San Diego State University, Prof. Marc Marschark, Rochester Institute of Technology and Prof. James Woodward, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Sixty-four researchers from Hong Kong and other Asia-Pacific countries presented their research findings. There were also twenty-three oral presentations and thirteen poster presentations. The Centre presented one invited talk, eight papers and one poster at the conference. Over a hundred and forty participants attended the event.

Invited talk:

• The Dong Nai project: a case study in deaf-centered bilingual education.

Oral presentations:

• "A case study on the non-manuals of instrument classifiers in Tianjin sign language (TJSL)"
• "Are all movement features “prosodic” in HKSL?"
• "Developing a formal measure of children’s proficiency in HKSL"
• "Learning to use space referentially: analysing the development of discourse level language in non-native signers"
• "The oral language profiles of children with hearing impairments: a comparison between children in a sign bilingual and co-enrolment programme and children studying in regular primary schools in Hong Kong"
• "Assessing Chinese literacy development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children in a sign-bilingual and co-enrolment programme in Hong Kong: from vocabulary to grammatical knowledge"
• "Classroom participation of deaf students in a sign bilingual co-enrolment setting"
• "The origin of Hong Kong Sign Language and early deaf education in Hong Kong"

Poster presentation:

• "Phonological acquisition of Cantonese by a deaf child with a cochlear implant"