Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-123).

Hearing children whose parents are deaf live between two linguistic and cultural communities. As in other bilingual families, parents and children make choices in their home language use that influence the children’s competence in the minority language--ASL--and language maintenance across generations. This dissertation presents 13ethnographic interviews of hearing adults with deaf parents and case studies of three families, two with two deaf parents and three hearing sons (ages 3-16) and one with a deaf mother and her hearing 2-year-old daughter. Analysis of the adult interviews reveals that--despite variation in community affiliation and sign language ability and practice--these adult children of deaf parents share a functional language ideology in which family communication potentially involves effort; putting in such effort is appropriate only to the degree that it overcomes communication barriers. Analysis of the family members’ code choices in two hours of videotaped naturalistic interaction at home was supplemented by observation and interviews. The families’ children behaved in a manner consistent with the interviewed adults’ functional language ideology, restricting their signing to times of communicative necessity. Using an analytical framework based on Bell’s (1984; 2000) theory of audience design, I coded every communicative turn for the role of each family member (speaker/signer, addressee, participant, bystander) and for the communication medium (sign, gesture, mouthing, speech, etc.). The children consistently adjusted their code choices to their addressees, occasionally signing to their siblings, but always for an obvious purpose, e.g., keeping a secret. Only the oldest brother in each family showed any tendency to accompany speech to a sibling with signing when a deaf parent was an unaddressed participant. Between these fluent bilingual children, signing was available as a communicative resource but never the default option. Given that the hearing children even in these culturally Deaf families tended toward speech whenever communicatively possible, it is no surprise that children whose deaf parents have strong skills in spoken English might grow up with limited signing skills--as did some of the interviewed adults--and therefore restricted access to membership in the Deaf community. / text

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Andrews University, School of Education, 2008. / Bibliography: leaves 212-226.

Thesis (M.S. Ed.)--State University of New York College at Brockport, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-64).

Submitted by Angela Maria de Oliveira (amolivei@uepg.br) on 2019-02-07T11:30:29Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Eliziane Manosso Streiechen.pdf: 3519479 bytes, checksum: bc2afe5b8688c4e6e13ac659934094d6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2019-02-07T11:30:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Eliziane Manosso Streiechen.pdf: 3519479 bytes, checksum: bc2afe5b8688c4e6e13ac659934094d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-12-07 / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar o percurso escolar de um estudante ouvinte, bilíngue e com altas habilidades/superdotação (AH/S), filho de mãe surda, que vive em um contexto familiar, onde há cinco línguas envolvidas: Ucraniana, Portuguesa, Alemã, Inglesa e a Libras. A questão problemática investigada é: quais as implicações que esse contexto multilíngue, bem como as AH/S podem trazer para a escolarização do sujeito? O histórico do percurso escolar analisado inicia-se no 1º ano e segue até o 9º ano do ensino fundamental, que compreende as idades entre seis e quatorze anos do sujeito. A pesquisa foi realizada em duas escolas localizadas em uma cidade do interior do Estado do Paraná, onde o sujeito reside com os pais e avós maternos. Os dados da pesquisa foram coletados por meio de entrevistas com professores, psicólogos, diretores, equipe pedagógica, familiares e com o próprio sujeito. Dados de outros estudos (STREIECHEN, 2014) também serão retomados com a finalidade de discutirmos questões linguísticas e escolares do sujeito em questão. Esta pesquisa é de natureza qualitativa, de cunho etnográfico, apoiada em um estudo de caso. A Análise Textual Discursiva (MORAES; GALIAZZI, 2016) foi a Metodologia utilizada para a análise dos dados, uma vez que esse modelo oferece a oportunidade de o pesquisador mergulhar, de um modo mais profundo, na interpretação dos dados, com o compromisso de gerar novas teorias e/ou pressupostos. A Psicanálise foi a Teoria utilizada para respaldar a análise dos dados, visto que essa abordagem aponta conceitos de interesse para a compreensão da relação professor/aluno, entre os quais está a importância da fala e do desejo do educando na aquisição do conhecimento, bem como da escuta mais atenta por parte dos docentes para conhecer o aluno em sua plenitude. Os resultados da pesquisa indicam, entre outros aspectos que: os desafios de aprendizagem do sujeito, nos anos iniciais, não foram relacionados às AH/S, pelo fato de os professores não as identificarem; seu modo peculiar de escrever não foi associado ao seu contexto multilinguístico e/ou às AH/S, mas tomada como erro, uma vez que os professores desconheciam as línguas que envolviam esse sujeito; a ênfase dos docentes estava mais inclinada às dificuldades e menos às habilidades desse aluno. Isso fez com que as dificuldades se acentuassem cada vez mais, levando o educando a desenvolver repúdio pela escola e um total desinteresse pelos estudos. Nossas conclusões inferem para a dificuldade que alguns docentes encontram ao se depararem com alunos com condições peculiares de aprendizagem, visto que, engessados em suas estratégias tradicionalistas e seculares, ficam impossibilitados de ouvir e conhecer o aluno, desconsiderando a vida que fica além dos muros da escola. Portanto, nossa tese é de que, por não carregarem o estereótipo da deficiência, tanto os alunos com AH/S quanto os filhos de pais surdos, tornam-se invisíveis aos olhos de muitos educadores, ficando à margem e fadados ao ‘fracasso’. Defenderemos, portanto, a importância de esses alunos receberem uma atenção especial, por parte da escola, a fim de que não sejam excluídos de um efetivo processo de ensino e aprendizagem. / This study aimed at analyzing the school trajectory of a hearing student, who: is bilingual with high abilities/giftedness (HA/G); has a deaf mother; lives in a familiar context, in which five languages are involved: Ukrainian, Polish, German, English, and Libras. The research question that guided this study was: what are the implications that this multilingual context, as well as the HA/G may have on the participant's schooling? The participant's school trajectory analyzed encompassed the period from 1st to 9th year of the elementary school, at which the participant’s age varied from six to fourteen years old. The study was conducted in two schools located in countryside of Paraná, where the participant resided with his parents and maternal grandparents. The data were collected through interviews with teachers, psychologists, principals, pedagogical staff, family members and the participant himself. Extra data from other studies (STREIECHEN, 2014) were also used in order to discuss the participant’s linguistic and school issues. This is a qualitative study, ethnographic in nature, supported by a case study. The Discursive Textual Analysis (MORAES; GALIAZZI, 2016) was the methodological framework adopted to analyze data in this study, considering that such framework allows the researcher to interpret the data further, with the commitment to generate new theories and/or assumptions. Psychoanalysis was the theory adopted to support data analysis, since this approach points out concepts of interest for comprehending the relationship between teacher and student, to cite: the importance of student's speech and desire to acquire knowledge, as well as of teacher's most attentive listening to become acquainted with a student in his/her amplitude. Results indicated, among other aspects, that: the participant's learning challenges, in the initial school years, were not related to the HA/G, since teachers did not identify such abilities; the participant's peculiar written style was not associated with his multilingual context and/or with the HA/G, but considered as erroneous, once the teachers were not acquainted with the languages experienced by the participant; the teachers' priority relied on the participant's difficulties rather than his abilities. The aspects aforementioned suggested that the participant' struggles intensified more and more, leading him to develop an antipathy for the school and a total indifference for studying. The conclusions pointed to the difficulty that some teachers encounter when they have to work with students with peculiar learning conditions. Such teachers, due to their traditionalist and secular strategies, are unable to listen and become acquainted with their students, disregarding their lives beyond the school walls. Therefore, the thesis of this study is that, because they do not carry the stereotype of disability, both students with HA/G and children of deaf parents become invisible in the eyes of many educators, being isolated and doomed to failure. This study highlights that these students should receive special attention in the scholar environment, so that they are not excluded from an effective teaching and learning process.