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<P><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=3>Today I was teaching one of my students about 'sentences' and the difference between a question and an answer.<BR><BR>I saw the student made the mistake frequently between the punctuation and the signs themselves. I asked him where the end of the sentence was, he knew where it was. When I asked him what this symbol means: (the first one)<BR></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=3>he said it was the chest. Like in the sign man.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=3>Maybe it's a question of time to learn this difference, but I think it's interessting to let you all know how children learn SignWriting, and which mistakes they make. <BR>Maybe other teachers see this too?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=3>I find the children have difficulties with the SignWriting punctuation.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=3>Greetings Kathleen</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=3>ps: I put the students exercises in this mail, so you can see how we work with SW in the classroom ;)</FONT></P>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>eghoffma@UMICH.EDU</I><BR>Reply-To: <I>sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</I><BR>To: <I>sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [sw-l] punctuation question</I><BR>Date: <I>Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:33:48 -0500</I><BR>>Thanks to all for the suggestions. I think the idea of leaving space <BR>>in between lines to indicate time will work best for my purposes. <BR>>All the best,<BR>>Erika<BR>><BR>>Quoting Valerie Sutton <sutton@signwriting.org>:<BR>><BR>>>SignWriting List<BR>>>March 9, 2006<BR>>><BR>>>>On Mar 9, 2006, at 1:12 PM, eghoffma@UMICH.EDU wrote:<BR>>>>>I was looking over the available punctuation and was wondering - <BR>>>>>is there any way to show that the pause between the end of
one <BR>>>>>sentence and the beginning of the next is shorter than is normal? <BR>>>>> The utterance in question has the signer jumping back in very <BR>>>>>quickly after ending a statement to clarify something he'd just <BR>>>>>said. I guess a written English equivalent might be a dash? If <BR>>>>>there's no SW symbol I can make note of it in some other way, but <BR>>>>> I thought I'd ask...<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>>Here is some information about Time...the amount of space between <BR>>>two lines is showing the amount of Time...so a single Hyphen might <BR>>>be best in your case above, or possibly parentheses, which are <BR>>>used in spoken languages to discuss an
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