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Stefan Woehrmann Date: Wed Mar 15, 2000 9:42 pm Subject: Re: (just a brief progress report, and a "PS-question-idea") | |
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>From: Valerie Sutton >Reply-To: SignWriting List >To: SignWriting List >Subject: Re: (just a brief progress report, and a "PS-question-idea") >Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:40:25 -0800 > >At 10:05 PM -0300 3/13/00, Fernando Capovilla wrote: > >>Once a relatively large SW lexicon in BrSL is established, we may >>try to join our >>brilliant colleagues in the SW list, and start doing what they are >>proposing (and >>already doing themselves): using SW to write lessons (in our case, >>lessons written >>in BrSL) about the grammar of a written-language (in our case Portuguese). > >-------------------------------------- > >SignWriting List >March 14, 2000 > >Hi Fernando - >That is a very interesting idea about teaching Portuguese grammar to >Deaf people in Brazil, by writing the lesson in Brazilian Sign >Language in SignWriting... > >I know of no equivalent here in the USA - I would be very interested >to know if anyone has done that? > >We do have a couple of grammar lessons about American Sign Language >grammar, written in American Sign Language..."so they are lessons >about ASL taught in ASL and written in ASL"...but I have never seen a >lesson in English grammar, taught and written in ASL... > >To record a Deaf person teaching grammar, while signing in ASL - is >an advanced "movement writing" document. The SignWriting is rich with >body shifts and facial expressions...so developing the written >lessons would take time. > >I know that Ingvild Roald in Norway has been teaching physics to Deaf >students in Norwegian signs, using SignWriting...so that is an >example of another subject being taught... > Hi Valerie, just a short note. We started to translate the first few pages of a autocycle -driver licence course using GebaerdenSchrift and the pupils of the 7th grade are able to understand much better what is meant. In addition to that - now they start to learn all the specific terms they need for the test in both languages - simply great ! >So far, any English that is being learned from learning SignWriting >has come from inspiration...it is not an "official lesson", but >instead some students love to read and write more, after they learn >SignWriting, and so they start becoming personally interested in >literature in general...but it is not anything "official", which >would require research, I agree.... > >Val ;-) > >----------------------------- > >Valerie Sutton > > >SignWritingSite: >https://www.SignWriting.org > >SignBankSite: >https://www.SignBank.org > >SignWriting List Archives: >https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l > >To post a message to the SW List: > > >To manage your SW List email: > >for No Mail: SET SW-L NOMAIL >for Digest Mail: SET SW-L DIGEST >for Regular Mail: SET SW-L MAIL >for Member List: REVIEW SW-L by NAME |
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