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Charles Butler Date: Fri Nov 13, 1998 11:40 am Subject: Re: question | |
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> Just curious--Has anyone tried teaching ASL via Sign Writing? I have the demo tapes that I show to ASL 2 students, but I've not had them "learn" it yet. Just wondering about y'all's opinions. I know the Deaf Community as a whole seems opposed to it, and I understand the rationale. However, it is very frustrating to give the students worksheets with English words written in ASL word order. My high school students can NOT separate the idea that it's only a representation, not "bad" English. > > Maggi > When I see the sentence "me interest go store. You me go go question" in makes my blood boil. It is neither Standard English, nor Ebonic English, both of which are current spoken languages, it is Sign Gloss, which is neither ASL nor English, but an English representation of Sign. Even Stokoe is not intuitive, one must know ASL already, and very thoroughly, in order to read it, and then one must study to know it. Sign Writing is intuitive enough to teach the basics in an afternoon, the entire system in a week of night classes, and have people writing their own language in actual hand motions and grammar from the second minute. Reading the language one picks up the grammar, writing it enforces the pattern. I think it's a win-win situation. |
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