<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face=".SF NS Text" class="">SignWriting List</font><div class=""><font face=".SF NS Text" class="">May 3, 2019</font></div><div class=""><font face=".SF NS Text" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="">Thank you, Ebson Gomes, for announcing this new SignWriting course. The course is taking place at UFERSA, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Arido, in MossorĂ³, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.</div><div class=""></div><div class=""><font face=".SF NS Text" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face=".SF NS Text" class="">Message from Ebson:</font></div><div class=""><font face=".SF NS Text" class=""><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245);" class="">It will be a basic course to encourage people to learn to write in Libras (Brazilian Sign Language). It is very valid that teachers of sign languages can learn the written form of that language, and allow access also by this modality. </span></font><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245);" class="">I think it's going to be a very special time to discuss a little bit about teacher education and the literacy and multilearning processes of deaf students with SignWriting.</span><font face=".SF NS Text" class=""><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face=".SF NS Text" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#1c1e21" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245);" class="">Facebook Posting:</span></font></div><div class=""><font face=".SF NS Text" class=""><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="C0FA64DE-238A-4228-8578-271BE90A057B" src="cid:AC835791-D572-4381-BB08-5C3EB5BEBF79@san.rr.com" class=""></div><div class=""><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245);" class="">Google Translation to English:</span></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245);" class="">The purpose of this course is to promote the teaching and use of SignWriting for both the deaf community and students of the Libras course as a</span><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245);" class=""> way for everyone to learn the written modality of Libras using the SignWriting system. It is worth noting that the system understands this modality while allowing them to learn other lexicons with the rules learned from writing the language, which are valid for all sign languages but with their linguistic peculiarities.</span><font face=".SF NS Text" class=""><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245);" class="">LEARNING TO WRITE IN LIBRAS: FROM SIGNING TO WRITING OF SIGNS with the SIGNWRITING SYSTEM</span></font></div></div><font face=".SF NS Text" class=""><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245);" class=""><br style="content: ""; display: block; margin-top: 10px;" class=""></span></font></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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