[[alternative]]The role of Taiwan Sign Language in a Dc/Dp’s learning life

[[abstract]]The role of Taiwan Sign Language in a Dc/Dp’s learning life Shian-Huei Lin National Taiwan Normal University Abstract Nearly six percent of deaf children were born of deaf parents (Dc/Dp). They faced with challenges in many ways in the spoken language society. In order to know the role of Taiwan Sign Language (TSL) in the learning life of a Deaf children of Deaf parents, the qualitative research design was used to answer this question. According to the references and referral by deaf friends, I have connected with “Jiou-Wo” (Dc/Dp, the primal participant of this study) for more than twelve months. He was thirty years old and never yield to this deafness. His parents and two bothers were deaf. TSL was the only communication mode in his family. Through not only interviewing Jiou-Wo, his parents, teacher and classmate separately, but also analyzing the relevant documents, the main findings were as following: Growing up in the abundant TSL environment, Jiou-Wo superiorly identified himself with deaf community. He insisted that TSL is much more practical than Chinese Coded Sign Language or Spoken Language in getting into the knowledge world. TSL was very important for Jiou-Wo in his learning life. TSL facilitated his learning and let him become a high achiever. Jiou-Wo demonstrated very good writing ability. This fact revealed that using TSL wouldn’t impede Jiou-Wo’s writing ability. These results may have some implications for deciding communication mode for the Deaf...