Completed Projects

Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education (JC-SLCO) Programme

Date: 01/01/2006 - 31/07/2014

In August 2006, the Centre received a major donation from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust to run a research program experimentating on a form of education that potentially benefits both deaf and hearing students linguistically and academically. This 7-year project explores an alternative model of deaf education that draws insights from recent advances in sign linguistics, sign bilingualism as well as co-enrolment in deaf education. The project also evaluates the effectiveness of this model of deaf education on the language development of deaf and hearing students, from the perspective of sign language development, literacy and oral language development. The program also looks into the nature of a sign-bilingual and co-enrolment classroom through classroom process research. The programme has the capacity of nurturing local expertise in conducting research on deaf education and sign linguistics, as well as teachers who have knowledge of teaching deaf children effectively. The research programme will also lead to a body of research outputs that sets the history of language in deaf education in Hong Kong.

For more information, please visit http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cslds/jcslco