Originally Posted by Interpretrator

I should clarify that the students in my class are fluent in ASL and do know that it's a language. (And love to correct me when they think I've gotten something wrong, or help make up nonce signs, etc.) But about picking up on the bias towards spoken language, that's probably it. The funny thing is we emphasize so many English language skills in our program but we never, ever bother with speech or pronunciation so you'd think they:/t from their family or friends who are either hearing or very oral deaf.