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Vicky A. Allen, M.Ed.
After more than 25 years of experience as an educator for the deaf, Vicky Allen discovered the benefits of integrating American Sign Language (ASL) with teaching English as a Second/Foreign Languag...view moreAfter more than 25 years of experience as an educator for the deaf, Vicky Allen discovered the benefits of integrating American Sign Language (ASL) with teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language (ESL/EFL). In American Sign Language as a Bridge to English, Vicky shares her successful teaching methods for hearing teachers and students in the EFL classroom.
Vicky received a master’s degree in Deaf Education in the mid 1970s. Her course work included learning the language of ASL and thus began her life’s work. While teaching beginning ASL at the college level in the early 2000s, Vicky was required to teach fingerspelling and handshapes during the third semester. It was then that she realized teaching handshapes during the first semester would give her students an advantage in learning the signs and producing them more accurately.
When Vicky accepted a teaching position in the Persian Gulf region in 2010 to teach English as a Foreign Language, she saw the value of integrating ASL in the ESL/EFL classroom.
In 2012, she presented her idea at an international conference and since then has facilitated informative workshops in several other venues, seeing increased interest in ASL inclusion of teaching ESL/EFL. Teachers and students, excited about their successes, encouraged Vicky to document her work. Vicky’s book, American Sign Language as a Bridge to English, is a must for every educator’s library.view less