Upcoming Event | Entering the Deaf World through Sign Language
April 15, 2017 Upcoming
You are cordially invited to the 3rd Diligentia et Sapientia delivered by Professor TANG Wai-lan on Friday, 14 April, 16:30pm. The Lecture is held by Diligentia College as an interdisciplinary series of lecture activities, through which we aim to bring together students from different majors and cultural backgrounds, and then guide them to think in a different way.
Topic: Entering the Deaf World through Sign Language
Guest Speaker: Professor TANG Wai-lan
Prof. Tang received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and joined the English Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests cover the linguistic properties of Hong Kong Sign Language, acquisition of sign language and spoken language by deaf children, and deaf education. She publishes extensively about these topics in various journals and international edited volumes. She is also the author of the first linguistic dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language, and a co-editor of an Oxford University Press volume documenting a pioneering approach to educating deaf and hearing students in the school environment. She is a recipient of numerous research grants and donations for her research, knowledge transfer and community outreach activities. At CUHK, she is the founder of the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, as well as the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages. Quite recently, she also founded SLCO Community Resources Limited through the support of the CUHK Sustainable Knowledge Transfer Project Fund. It is a non-government organization to promote sign language to support children with special education needs in the community. The company has the prospect of extending its professional consultancy services to Greater China and Asia.
Guest Speaker: Professor TANG Wai-lan
Prof. Tang received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and joined the English Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests cover the linguistic properties of Hong Kong Sign Language, acquisition of sign language and spoken language by deaf children, and deaf education. She publishes extensively about these topics in various journals and international edited volumes. She is also the author of the first linguistic dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language, and a co-editor of an Oxford University Press volume documenting a pioneering approach to educating deaf and hearing students in the school environment. She is a recipient of numerous research grants and donations for her research, knowledge transfer and community outreach activities. At CUHK, she is the founder of the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, as well as the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages. Quite recently, she also founded SLCO Community Resources Limited through the support of the CUHK Sustainable Knowledge Transfer Project Fund. It is a non-government organization to promote sign language to support children with special education needs in the community. The company has the prospect of extending its professional consultancy services to Greater China and Asia.
Venue: Rm 208 of Cheng Dao Building
Time: 16:30pm, Friday, 14 April
Abstract: Deaf and hard-of-hearing people are generally perceived as living in a world of silence owing to their loss of hearing, compensated by use of an alternative system of communication – sign language. In reality, not many deaf children are encouraged to sign in their formative years nowadays due to many misconceptions against sign language in supporting deaf children’s education and language rehabilitation. In this talk, I will focus on the misconceptions surrounding sign language and explain how they affect child development and ultimately the Deaf Community in society.
Time: 16:30pm, Friday, 14 April
Abstract: Deaf and hard-of-hearing people are generally perceived as living in a world of silence owing to their loss of hearing, compensated by use of an alternative system of communication – sign language. In reality, not many deaf children are encouraged to sign in their formative years nowadays due to many misconceptions against sign language in supporting deaf children’s education and language rehabilitation. In this talk, I will focus on the misconceptions surrounding sign language and explain how they affect child development and ultimately the Deaf Community in society.
