Subscribe Now! Vital Signs Teaching Deaf Students: Charlotte Evans describes teaching strategies that facilitate reading skills in Deaf students. Robert Hoffmeister explores the relationship between first and second languages in Deaf children.

The July August 2000 issue offers you:

FOCUS - Interpretation: Susan Berk-Seligson examines the problematic role of the court interpreter. Laura Freedgood highlights how an interpreter can distort a witness's response.

FEATURES - Native Languages: Val Dively discusses issues raised from her ethnographic study of Native Deaf informants.

Dialects: Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery identify the characteristics of Southern American English.

Classroom Strategies: David Williams offers some practical teaching strategies designed to make language instruction both rigorous and fun.

Special Report: As threats of violence escalate in the nation's schools, Ben Ward reports on the effects of intimidation on teachers and students.

Minority Languages: Elena Garcia Sagues charts the revival of minority languages in Europe.

Young Learners: In the final installment of their series on inclusion in the elementary school, Howard De Leeuw and Susan Stannard examine teachers' attitudes towards inclusion.

Assessment: Jamal Abedi examines the impact of students' language background on their performance in tests.

Electronic Education: David Bradburn explains how technological innovations are helping students with disabilities to meet the challenge of learning.
Gordon Rich assesses the work of the Online Technical Assistance Network (OTAN).
Randall Davis questions the future of teacher-generated websites.
Chaz Penedes reveals how the use of educational software dramatically improved the language learning abilities of elementary students at a Tucson school.
Barry Bakin interviews the founder of the "Email Project Homepage."

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