Shane's SW progress in Belfast

[Ingvild Roald]

This is great, Shane -

thanks for telling us

Ingvild




>From: "Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa" <shane.gilchrist.oheorpa at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>To: SW-L at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Subject: [sw-l] Shane's SW progress in Belfast
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:59:01 +0100
>
>Everyone,
>
>Today I was teaching Northern Ireland Sign Language to primary school
>kids (not deaf) aged 9 to 11 - for today's exercises, I used some
>sample pages from Val's Goldilocks (level one) as there's a lot of ASL
>signs in Northern Ireland Sign Language which is great - and some from
>Stef's excellent workbook/thingy.
>
>They picked it up very well - they have enjoyed drawing, working out
>and actually signing to themselves which is great - they have started
>to realise that NISL is a language, not a system of gestures - they
>realised that NISL is as good as Irish or English (it is a
>Irish-speaking school) which is wonderful.
>
>I will try and develop the NISL sw workbook using me experiences and
>everyone's expertise/experience on the SW list :-)
>
>Ingvild: im a lot more confident with my SW - thanks to you! :-)
>
>Shane
>
>Stef: thank you for your brilliantly-done book - we ll want it to
>translated into English with NISL & ISL!!!
>