<div><FONT size=6>I believe that the Spanish Sign Language books have very good illustrations for teaching. </FONT></div> <div><FONT size=6></FONT> </div> <div><FONT size=6>Charles</FONT></div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Gagnon & thibeault <atg@videotron.ca></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content=Word.Document name=ProgId> <META content="Microsoft Word 11" name=Generator> <META content="Microsoft Word 11" name=Originator><LINK href="cid:filelist.xml@01C70BB1.223C69D0" rel=File-List> <STYLE> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:2; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 268435456 0 0 -2147483648 0;} @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-alt:\5B8B\4F53; mso-font-charset:134;
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Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoBodyText style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">I recently printed lessons/exercises for English and French Sign Writing (SW) Textbooks.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;
mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">I met with Deaf teachers and showed them French lessons/exercises from this SW Textbook which I lent to them for several weeks.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN class=SpellE>Unfortunatley</SPAN>, after some time, <SPAN class=GramE>they<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>decided</SPAN> that they would not use it (and this for various reasons as outlined further on).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was, however, still very happy to <SPAN class=GramE>listen <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>to</SPAN> their comments and opinions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">They were very interested in reading the different examples <SPAN class=GramE>such</SPAN> as:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT face=Symbol size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><B><FONT size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt">the three basic <SPAN class=SpellE>handshapes</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT face=Symbol size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><B><FONT size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">the palm facing, and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list
36.0pt"><FONT face=Symbol size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><B><FONT size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">the contact symbols,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN class=GramE><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">as</SPAN></FONT></B></SPAN><B><FONT size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt;
LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> these illustrations helped them better understand.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">However, they found it very difficult to grasp the 10 hand groups, the travelling rotations, the curved, <SPAN class=SpellE>axil</SPAN>, circular and body movements, the facial expressions, dynamics, etc.<SPAN class=GramE>, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>as</SPAN> the Deaf teachers did not quite understand
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>a lot of the descriptions and some of the illustrations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They did not really appreciate having to figure out the different symbols without illustrations and showed no interest in learning from the SW Textbook.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They were confident that lessons/exercises taught from the SW Textbook for hearing signers could expand faster than that of deaf signers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language:
EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">And, I must agree with them; I do recognize the fact that SW List Members who hear are more interested to learn and research than the Deaf SW List Members because the deaf population, in general, does not have the facility to write a spoken language.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">I was told by Deaf teachers that if the lessons in SW Textbooks had more illustrations for the 10 hand groups, etc., (as mentioned earlier), they would be more than
happy to study them again and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN class=GramE><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">even</SPAN></FONT></B></SPAN><B><FONT size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> teach same <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>to Deaf children as these children also need to visualize.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New
Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">And now, I ask you all, do you own a SW Textbook with all or more <SPAN class=GramE>illustrations ?</SPAN>, because if you did, it could help Deaf professionals better understand the above.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">André Thibeault<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></div></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>