| SignWriting List Archive 1 October 1997 - May 1998 |
November 18, 1997
MESSAGE TO THE SIGNWRITING EMAIL LIST
SUBJECT: Zillion Ways To Use SignWriting
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:02:49 -0800
From: BRENDA BULINSKI <bbulins@st1.wou.edu>
Subject: Re: Zillion Ways To Use SignWriting
Hello there!
I'm a graduate student in the Deaf Education Program at Western
Oregon
University. One of my teachers introduced me to your wonderful
system.
I can think of a zillion ways to make use of this in my future
classroom! Maybe you could supply me with a zillion more ? :-)
Thanks!
Brenda
bbulins@st1.wou.edu
Hi Brenda :-)
Ha! A zillion ways to use SignWriting in the classroom...hmmmmm...
I hope you and others will write again with your ideas...
Here is one way...
1. Write one complete sentence, written in two languages,
on poster board
and place it above the blackboard. For example, if you are in
the USA, the
sentence would be written in American Sign Language in SignWriting,
and a
totally separate version of the same sentence written in English
beneath
it. The grammar will be very different in the two languages.
This gives
students a chance to look at the sentence over a long period
of time, and
over time they will begin to absorb the differences and understand
both
languages well.
This idea comes from a Deaf teacher of Deaf children, Ritva
Bergmann, in
Denmark. Years ago, in 1983, I was invited to visit classrooms
of Deaf
children learning SignWriting in Denmark. I never forgot visiting
Ritva
Bergmann's class at Aalborgskolen in the city of Aalborg. Her
Deaf students
were young children, around ages 6, 7 or 8.
I was very impressed with the way Ritva presented written
signs to the
children. There were several posters in the classroom like the
one I
mention above. The Danish Sign Language was written in good DSL
grammar.
The DSL grammar was obviously quite different than the accompanying
"spoken
Danish" sentence.
Please write and give us your ideas :-)
Valerie Sutton
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