| Abstract | [Introduction]
In this chapter, I raise some general questions about how language is learned and apply some proposed theories to the issue of how deaf children learn English. Studying how deaf children learn English within the broader context of language acquisition as a whole leads to an approach that is very different from those associated with other perspectives. It is an approach that can supplement these perspectives, as it can shed a new light on a process that is important theoretically as well as practically. In the following section, I overview the normal course of language acquisition and discuss a theoretical approach that accounts for this process. In the subsequent sections, I examine the application of this theoretical approach to studying how deaf children learn English. |
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