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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Feb 10, 2000 5:02 am Subject: Re: Teaching SW | ||||||||||||
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At 10:36 AM -0600 2/9/00, Stuart Thiessen wrote: >I was wondering how do most people go about learning SW? What "methods" >are you finding successful for teaching/learning SW personally and/or in >a group? I am in the process of putting together a SW study group where >we can learn together. I would like some ideas on methodology. --------------------------- SignWriting List February 9, 2000 Hi Stuart...That's great! I hope your study group enjoys learning SignWriting. I am in a strange position because I am a movement notator, not a teacher of ASL or any language. So it may be that Steve and Dianne Parkhurst in Spain, or others in Norway, Brazil, Nicaragua or Germany etc can give you some advice on how to start developing teaching methods for ASL users... SignWriting has to "be applied" to different signed languages. So your group needs to learn to "apply" the symbols to signs they know... Maybe your group will develop a little booklet that would help beginners to write ASL? I hope so... Years ago I had hoped for some ASL teachers to take the initiative to create new books that teach ASL using SignWriting. But after 22 years, no one had done it in this country. So that is why a few years ago we finally created the "Learn To Read ASL in SignWriting" series, based on videotapes of ASL storytelling. The subject matter may not be very interesting to you - Goldilocks does get a little dull after awhile! But the one thing that the "Learn To Read ASL in SignWriting" series does, is it gives you a videotape, and the writing of that video in SignWriting and so your group can start and stop the video and then look at the SignWriting etc...it becomes an interesting exercise for people learning how SignWriting works. From there you can develop your own material because you will have some experience... Here is information about the series on the web: COURSE 3: LEARN TO READ ASL Learn To Read ASL Introduction https://www.SignWriting.org/learn001.html Learn To Read ASL Frame by Frame Instruction https://www.SignWriting.org/learn005.html Val ;-) | ||||||||||||
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