Deaf instructor: reflections over the strategies on Brazilian Sign Language teaching praxis

• Grant number: 12/07692-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education
• Principal Investigator: Cristina Broglia Feitosa de Lacerda
• Grantee: Karen Santos Lopes
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Education of deaf students has been a recent issue concerning the debates over Education system's inclusion. Specially regarding the methods applied to teaching such individuals. Hence it becomes more relevant to intensify the studies concerning teaching LIBRAS (Brazilian sign language) to these students, since it reveals to be efficient for broadening the communication skills and as a good teaching approach for them. This study intends to analyze the strategies employed by deaf instructors for teaching LIBRAS in a bilingual education environment, which intends to be a place where the singularities of deaf students are respected and which allows for a more egalitarian space for the exchange of ideas.