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Lourdes Tollette Date: Tue Jan 5, 1999 6:43 pm Subject: | ||||||||
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Carlos, Carlos wrote: The role of SW in Bilingualism is that SW could enforce SL learning, giving Deaf people a "more complete"* language because they could have writen literature, between other things. It is also probably that for any person is easy to learn to write and read in their own language before learning to write and read in a foreign language, then SW could help for Deaf children to learn to read and write before they learn how to read and write in English, Swedish, Spanish or whatever. Yes, You right!! I am deaf and grew up oral school ( Boston School for the Deaf) but Most deaf people in my school are hiding place somewhere so we can use basic ASL that we are not suppose to do that. When I first learn ASL and I say wow it is so easy to understand and lose interesting in English language. Because this school is only oral and no ASL at all. My school teaching us to learn very strong English. We all deaf have trouble with that because We use ASL and strong English together. That can confuse us. (So my feeling that they should teaching ASL first when we are little from 1 grade to 5 grade then start learn in English from 6 grade to high school.) When We reach High School and start allow to ASL and go to deaf club and social with deaf people. We (deaf) learn so fast and so much easier to understand ASL than straight English. When I see that and I prefer ASL if I need interpreter or commutation with deaf people. I don't want English sign because it really confuse me. Some deaf people and some interpreter not know ASL and only sign English. I have allot patient with them and ask allot, like what is that mean or what? or ask them to explain to me easy. I want to tell you little bit about me, I was born Puerto Rico, know speaking Spanish and came to New York, not knowing speak English. My parent put me to Oral school for deaf. The teacher found out that I only speaking Spanish so they tried to teach me learning in English. So I did learn English but still put in Spanish with English all together and it was all messing up. Because when I was little and not understand thought that both languages are suppose to be in one language. I don t know what it is mean English and Spanish. The teacher talk to my parent and told them not to teach me in Spanish at home or whatever because it will be very confuse for me. So They want me to learn in English only. When I grew older and understand both language are different. Now I don't know how to speaking Spanish or writing in spanish anymore. I was kinda disappointment. But that is ok! ;-) I have seen several deaf people grew up in hearing school on their life. And never see ASL. So they are very strong English than us who we been grew up with ASL.. so Deaf people will have a problem to learn ASL for the first time when they are older. And I was told that they prefer to stay with English not ASL since they are deaf who been grow up in hearing school. Excue me, I talk too much this. Lourdes | ||||||||
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