My Quarter 2 IRP book is Signing
Exact English by Gerilee Gustason, Donna Pfetzing, and Esther Zawolkow. The reason I chose this book is because I
wanted to see the differences between signing Exact English and American Sign
Language, which I am currently taking at Kentridge High School.
I believe that the most logical first step to learning how
to sign Exact English would be to learn about the “Important Principles of
Signing Exact English” that are discussed by the author because this will lay
some of the groundwork and allow me to gain a better understanding of the
language. One of the principles that stuck out to me was that “a sign should be
translatable to only one English
equivalent” because this principle means that only one sign should be used for
English words such as “run”, which has many different translations in ASL.
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this looks very interesting, nice topic
ReplyDeleteThanks Nigel.
DeleteThis is cool. is learning sign language equivalent to learning a spoken language? or is it easier/harder?
ReplyDeleteThanks Zach! Learning sign language is equivalent to learning a spoken language in the sense that they are both languages and forms of communication. But they are obviously not learned the same because sign languages use hand gestures and a spoken language uses speech. There are many different kinds of sign languages just like there are many different kinds of spoken languages, and many countries have their own sign languages just like they have their own spoken languages. For me it is harder to learn sign language, but I'm sure some people find it easier.
Deletei was wondering if you know more than 1 spoken language?
DeleteNope. I only know English.
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