TANG Wai Lan Gladys

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B.A., Cert. Ed. (HKU); PhD (Edin.)

Phone: 3943-7008

Email: gtang[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Director, The Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies

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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.

I have three major strands of research. I am interested in the structure of Hong Kong Sign Language at different linguistic levels. The acquisition of signed language by deaf children is also one of my major focuses. In recent years, I also ventured into unraveling how deaf children acquire spoken language and signed language from a bilingual acquisition perspective. My third research strand is the effect of sign bilingualism and co-enrollment in educating deaf and hearing students.

LING3205 Language Acquisition and Deaf Children
LING5103A Foundations in Language Acquisition (LIN)
LING5103B Foundations in Language Acquisition (CLA)
LING5403 Topics in Language Acquisition of Deaf Children