This paper reports on attention-getting strategies during adult–child interaction in a BSL-language nursery. The data come from a small study conducted at the School of Education at Leeds University, in which deaf children in a Deaf nursery run by Deaf adults were filmed. Deaf adults and deaf children both used waving and tapping to gain attention. Deaf adults used waving strategies more than the children did, while the children used more tapping strategies than the adults did. Additional ways of seeking attention and a range of different types of tapping and waving were identified, providing insights into the different uses of waving and the tapping in different situations. Findings also revealed possible developmental stages in attention-seeking.
2022. Acquisition of turn-taking in sign language conversations: An overview of language modality and turn structure. Frontiers in Psychology 13
Hoskin, Joanna, Ros Herman & Bencie Woll
2022. Deaf Language Specialists: Delivering Language Therapy in Signed Languages. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 28:1 ► pp. 40 ff.
Singleton, Jenny L. & Peter K. Crume
2022. The socialization of modality capital in sign language ecologies: A classroom example. Frontiers in Psychology 13
Beatrijs, Wille, Van Lierde Kristiane & Van Herreweghe Mieke
2019. Parental strategies used in communication with their deaf infants. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 35:2 ► pp. 165 ff.
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