Gladys Wai-Lan TANG 鄧慧蘭 (Fellow)
Fields of Study:
Structure of Hong Kong Sign Language at different linguistic levels; the acquisition of signed language by deaf children,;the effect of sign bilingualism; co-enrollment in educating deaf and hearing students
Profile:
Gladys Tang is Professor and Head of Graduate Division at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Gladys Tang received her doctoral degree in applied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Her research interests are language acquisition and language pedagogy. Her interest in sign language research also took her to embark on a series of research projects in recent years on the linguistics of Hong Kong Sign Language, the acquisition of sign language and the development of deaf literacy by deaf children.
She has published on second language acquisition, second language pedagogy, sign linguistics, sign language acquisition and deaf education. She is Director of the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, Asian liaison of International Sign Linguistics Society and member of the Advisory Board of Sign Language Linguistic Society.
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