"The book is a rich mine of (the author's) findings in studies conducted with hearing students in high schools learning ASL--findings related to motivation, language processing, and learning strategies...Highly recommended."-- "CHOICE"
"As the number of ASL classes increases, so does our need to understand how factors like motivation, learning strategies, and learning disability affect learner success, and how these patterns compare with those from spoken L2 classrooms."--Deborah Chen Pichler "Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education"