Project

#AboutVGTInVGT - Science communication on the Flemish Sign Language Research

Code
BOF/MVF/202103/053
Duration
01 May 2021 → 30 April 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Grammar
    • Morphology
    • Sign language research
    • Syntax
  • Social sciences
    • Language curriculum and pedagogics
    • Language didactics
Keywords
Inclusion Education Flemish Sign Language Grammar
 
Project description

In the past two decades, pioneering and high-quality research into the linguistic structure of Flemish Sign Language (VGT) has been carried out in Flanders, including at Ghent University. This resulted in academic publications, but the results rarely reached the target audience, namely deaf signers in Flanders. The valorisation project #AboutVGTInVGT aims to provide an answer to this through online social anchoring. The aim is to bring all studies together and to provide an adequate and up-to-date picture of the research results that have been collected to date on the VGT. As the main target group, deaf signers need information about their own language, available in their own language. With the development of a sustainable website focused on VGT research communication, we recognize this need and we will make a major constructive contribution, which can lead to more in-depth education and greater awareness about the own language, VGT.