"The Learning of SignWriting
at ANPACIN Bilingual School
for the Deaf in Maringá - PR, Brazil"
by Daniele Miki Fujikawa Bózoli
Libras Professor at Federal University
of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR) and
PhD student in Linguistics at Federal
University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) danimiki@gmail.com
Sign languages are a linguistic way of expression for deaf people. In 1974, Valerie Sutton created her own sign notation system that writes sign languages. This system is internationally known as "SignWriting", which, in Brazil corresponds to "Escrita de Sinais", that makes it possible to write the parameters of sign languages such as handshapes, location, movement, orientation and facial expressions. Such a system is a possible ally in the deaf students’ education process. However, SignWriting is not well known by deaf communities. In addition there are few studies about the impact of SignWriting on the learning of deaf students. The interest of gathering information to enable more conclusive reflections about SignWriting has motivated this study. Therefore, this research focuses on the learning of school subjects using the SignWriting system for high school students from ANPACIN - Bilingual School for the Deaf of Maringá - Paraná, Brazil. In conducting this empirical research, a group of students were taught the basics of writing signs, and the research sought to verify the impact of this knowledge in the academic performance of the participants. As a result, we see a better performance of deaf students in school activities in SignWriting. These results suggest that the writing of signs may represent a tool to facilitate the deaf student's intellectual development. Objectively, SignWriting can act in the psychological field, as a tool for expansion of deaf users' knowledge of LIBRAS and can produce significant cognitive gains, since it is a writing system especially systematized for recording sign languages.
PORTUGUESE
"A aprendizagem de SignWriting
na ANPACIN - Colégio Bilíngue para Surdos
de Maringá - PR, Brasil"
by Daniele Miki Fujikawa Bózoli
Professora de Libras na Universidade
Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) e
Doutoranda em Linguística pela
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) danimiki@gmail.com
As línguas de sinais constituem-se em modo de expressão linguística de pessoas surdas. Em 1974, Valerie Sutton criou um sistema próprio para o registro dos sinais que compõem as línguas sinalizadas. Esse sistema, internacionalmente conhecido como SignWriting, corresponde ao que denominamos no Brasil de escrita de sinais. A escrita de sinais permite o registro dos parâmetros das línguas de sinais, como configurações de mão, locações, movimentos, orientações de mão e expressões faciais. Tal sistema de escrita apresenta-se como um possível aliado no processo de educação de alunos surdos. Contudo, a escrita de sinais ainda é pouco conhecida até mesmo pelas comunidades surdas. Alguns potenciais usuários ainda desconhecem esse sistema, além disso há poucos estudos sobre o impacto da escrita de sinais na aprendizagem escolar de alunos surdos. O interesse de reunir dados que possibilitem reflexões mais conclusivas sobre a escrita de sinais foi o que motivou esse estudo. Assim, a presente pesquisa consistiu na aprendizagem de conteúdos escolares, por meio do sistema SignWriting, para alunos usuários de Libras no ensino médio da ANPACIN - Colégio Bilíngue para Surdos de Maringá - Paraná, Brasil. Na condução da pesquisa empírica foi oportunizado a um grupo de alunos o conhecimento básico sobre escrita de sinais, buscando-se verificar o impacto desse conhecimento no desempenho escolar dos participantes. Como resultado, verificamos um melhor desempenho dos alunos surdos nas atividades escolares realizadas em SignWriting. Esses resultados sugerem que a escrita de sinais pode representar uma ferramenta a mais para facilitar o desenvolvimento intelectual do aluno surdo. Em termos objetivos, a escrita de sinais pode atuar, no campo psicológico, como ferramenta para ampliação de conhecimentos de surdos usuários de Libras, podendo produzir ganhos cognitivos significativos, uma vez que é um sistema de escrita especialmente sistematizado para o registro de línguas sinalizadas.
Presentation 5 "Literacy Process of Brazilian &
French Deaf Children"
by Marianne Stumpf
Presentation 16 “Contribution of Assistive Communication
and Writing Signs for Communication
with the Deaf” by Enilde Faulstich and
Gláucio Castro and Patrícia Tuxi, Brazil
Presentation 17
“Teachers of the Deaf at the
Center for Educational Support in
Ipiaú and the Reading Readiness
in SignWriting” by Madson Barreto,
Jorgina Souza, Maria Nascimento
& Tatiana Coelho, Brazil
Presentation 18
“Perspective of the Deaf About SignWriting
in the Brazilian City Ipiau/ Bahia”
by Madson Barreto, Jorgina Souza,
Maria Nascimento & Tatiana Coelho, Brazil
Presentation 24
“SignWriting in Brazilian Deaf Education:
1996 to present by Marianne Stumpf
and Madson Barreto, Brazil
Presentation 25
“Aspects of reading and SignWriting
case studies with deaf children &
adult college students deaf & learning.”
by Débora Wanderley, Brazil
Presentation 26
“Teaching and Learning SignWriting in an
Online Course: Experiences of the Teacher
and Students” by Madson Barreto and
Silvana Pereira and Eva Barbosa, Brazil
Presentation 35
“Escrita de Sinais sem mistérios”
the First Brazilian Book Teaching SignWriting
by Madson Barreto and Raquel Barreto, Brazil
Presentation 59
“The spread of SignWriting in Maranhão state
a curricular proposal in a bilingual school
in the city of Imperatriz" by Flávia de Almeida
& José Ribeiro da Silva Júnior, Brazil
2016 Presentation 53 Home For
Deaf Children
Education, Peru
Kristina Tworek
2016 Presentation 54 SignTyp Database
Research, USA
Rachel Channon
2016 Presentation 55 FSW Formal
SignWriting
Software, USA
Steve Slevinski
2016 Presentation 56 SignWriting in
Tunisian Deaf
Education, Tunisia
Laajili & Balti
2016 Presentation 57 Parallel Corpora
Software, Brazil
Alex M. Becker
2016 Presentation 58 Deaf Writing Skills
Education, Portugal
Jorge Manuel Pinto
2016 Presentation 59 Bilingual Deaf
Education, Brazil
Almeida & Júnior
2016 Presentation 60 Bilingual Deaf
Education, Brazil
Daniele Bózoli
2016 Presentation 61 SignWriting
in Unicode
Software, USA
Steve Slevinski
2016 Presentation 62 SignPuddle 3.0
Software, USA
Steve Slevinski
2016 Presentation 63 Peru Sign Dict
Research, Peru
Miguel Mondoñedo
2016 Presentation 64 Sign Wikipedias
Literature, USA
Valerie Sutton
ASL Presentation by
Adam Frost, Jason
Nesmith, Holly Sharer
& the CODA Brothers
Plus special video on
Tunisian Sign Wikipedia
by Mohamed Ali Balti
2017 Presentation 65 SignÉcriture: A
Decade of Writing
French-Swiss
Sign Language
Education,
French-Switzerland
by Anne-Claude
Prélaz Girod
2017 Presentation 66 The Sutton
SignWriting
Standard of 2017 Software, USA
by Steve Slevinski
2017 Presentation 67 The Writing of Grammatical
Non-Manual Expressions
in Sentences
in LIBRAS
Using SignWriting
Research, Brazil
by Joao Paulo
Ampessan
2017 Presentation 68 Sign Language Writing:
SignWriting as a
Tool in
Deaf Literacy
Education, Brazil
Fernando Carneiro Priscila Bartoletti
2017 Presentation 69 SignWriting Presentations
at the ICONIL in
Bacabal,Brazil
August 2017
by Adam Frost & Marianne Stumpf
2017 Presentation 70 2 Brazilian
TV Programs
on SignWriting
on TV INES,
Brazil, 2017