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From:
Akehurst Date: Tue Dec 8, 1998 5:41 pm Subject: Re: Private Tutor Ontario, Canada | ||||||||
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8. Facial expressions were hard for some students, and they didn't realize they used facial expressions when they signed - that sounds like an adult talking! Were the children any different, when learning facial expressions? Yes, they were, Valerie, and I should have mentioned this. In fact, the children really enjoyed 'making faces' and were quite good at remembering the positions of eyebrows, etc. I'm assuming that comes from their more recent experience with deciphering meaning by reading the 'whole' pictures (faces as well as hands) when dealing with their families. Many of the adults seem to have taken it for granted (much as we take our language's grammar (speaking for myself) for granted with time...)and had some difficulty making themselves consciously recall the facial expressions they use. *Just a side note here...we do have experience teaching Deaf adults and have done so for years, but we do not have as much experience teaching children. In a previous message, Kathy told us of some of the Deaf adult issues in class, which sounded very familiar to me....adults tend to base learning on their past experiences, and since Deaf adults didn't learn SignWriting in school when they were children, they tend to be more analytical and worried about understanding every detail, where children tend to accept and absorb in a less judgemental way...at least that is my personal experience...do you agree with that, Kathy? Absolutely. Thank you once again for giving us so much information to "chew on", Kathy, and I look forward to sending you the more advanced literature early next year - Please say "hello" to your students for me :-) Shall do, and thanks Valerie! all the best, K. | ||||||||
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