Importance of American Sign Language

In this activity, you will contribute towards a group resource, an annotated bibliography surrounding the teaching and learning of American Sign Language as a first or second language. In each lesson, you will be asked to find articles that correspond to a specific research methodology or instructional approach. You will do an article analysis and write a brief summary that will be added to the Annotated Bibliography. The resulting product will be a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of research resources about teaching and learning American Sign Language that can be used in the years ahead as you continue your career in the field.
For each article you read, complete a brief summary and responses to the analysis questions posted below. Upload an individual word document to each Assignment for each article you review, which includes your summary along with a detailed analysis. Add the brief summary to the Collaborative Google Doc: Annotated Bibliography (Links to an external site.).
For instructions and rubric, see Assignments 2 and 3.
What to Look For
In this lesson, you will choose two articles to read and summarize. Please choose articles that are directly relevant to ASL, and report results from an empirical study. Select articles that are relevant to your research topic and/or use a methodology that you are interested in considering. These articles will be added to the annotated bibliography.
When you read and summarize the article, respond to the following questions about the article you are reviewing.
What was the research question?
Describe the methods used by the author(s) and why those methods were a good fit for the research question. Include sources that guided the authors’ methodological decisions.
Describe the sample. How were the participants identified and described? What background information was collected? How were participants selected and recruited?
How did the authors deal with issues of validity and reliability?