Bilingualism and Bilingual Deaf Education

Marc Marschark is Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology, where he directs the Center for Education Research Partnerships. His primary interest is in relations among language, learning, and cognition; current research focuses on such relations among deaf children and adults in formal and informal educational settings. He is Editor of the IJournal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education./I Gladys Tang is Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also Director of The Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies and Co-director of Research and Technology Centre for Language and Communication Disorders, Shenzhen Research Institute, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her primary interest are sign linguistics and language acquisition of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. She is currently a member of the editorial board of IJournal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education/I, Sign Language Typology Series, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter/Ishara Press, and International Editor of the editorial board IGengo Kenkyu/I (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan), Japan. Harry Knoors is Professor at the Behavioral Science Institute of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and director of the Kentalis Academy at Royal Dutch Kentalis. Knoors is trained as a psycholinguist, specializing in language and literacy of deaf children. He is involved in research on childhood deafness (mainly language, literacy, and psychosocial development) and research on the effectiveness of special education. Knoors is an associate editor of the IJournal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education./I