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 Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.LGladys 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. 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 ofJournal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Sign Language Typology Series, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter/Ishara Press, and International Editor of the editorial board Gengo Kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan), Japan.