Assessment of learning the writing system?

Fri Sep 27 19:59:06 UTC 2002

SignWriting List
September 27, 2002

Thank you, Stephanie, for this message...my answer is below:

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>Dear Valerie Sutton (?),
>
>     I am currently a graduate student at the University of Connecticut,
>working on the acquisition of ASL.  Like many researchers of ASL, it is
>quite frustrating to try to transcribe the ASL on the videotapes in a
>written form.
>     For a post-doc, I am thinking of working with Chuck Perfetti,
>dealing with writing systems for ASL.  I have started my literature
>search, and have found at least nine writing systems for signed
>languages.  I am in the process now of trying to learn more about them.
>One of my biggest questions, one that I hope you might be able to answer
>for me, is do you have a way of assessing how well your signwriting
>users are actually writing and reading this system?  Other questions
>include: do you have a way of assessing what your users have trouble
>with?  And do you have a way that you have assessed the signwriting
>system itself, as to capturing this spatial language, complete with
>non-manuals?
>     I would greatly appreciate any information you could share with me.
>
>Yours,
>Stephanie Berk

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Hi Stephanie -
Because thousands of people are using SignWriting now, in 27
countries, and because I have been working on a deadline for our new
SignBank 2002 database, I am posting your message to the SignWriting
List. Perhaps others on the List can respond to your questions. This
is a big subject. First, we have two large web sites with literally
thousands of web pages...documentation of teachers and students using
SignWriting. For example, a Ph.D dissertation is being defended this
Fall that is a study on how Deaf children learn and use SignWriting
in Albuquerque, New Mexico...Teachers in several countries, such as
Nicaragua and Germany, report that children are reading SignWriting
fluently...and some testing has been done in a school for the deaf in
Saudi Arabia...so to start, I would suggest that you join the
SignWriting List, and to also visit some of these web pages:

SignWriting Linguistic Forum
....linguistic issues about SignWriting...
http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/linguistics/linguistics.html

....includes....

1. TERMINOLOGY IN THE MAKING
Physics Terminology in Norwegian Sign Language by Ingvild Roald
http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/linguistics/ling032.html

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2. A LINGUISTIC COMPARISON: TWO NOTATION SYSTEMS FOR SIGNED LANGUAGES
Stokoe Notation & Sutton SignWriting
by Joe Martin, Western Washington University
http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/linguistics/ling008.html

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3. WRITING THE SAME SIGNS IN DIFFERENT TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEMS
http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/linguistics/ling001.html

HAMNOSYS
Susanne Bentele, Universitaet Hamburg, Germany

STOKOE NOTATION
Joe Martin, Western Washington University

SIGNWRITING
Valerie Sutton, Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting

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4. SIGNWRITING AND AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/research/sw203.html

Paper written for a course in ASL Linguistics by Bill Collins
Delaware Technical and Community College

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