Using Corpus-Based Research to Inform the Teaching of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) as a Second Language

Cresdee, Donovan; Johnston, Trevor

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“…Currently, in many countries, instruction is often based on an instructor's anecdotal knowledge and gut feelings. Such indicators, based in the instructor's intuition, often do not reflect wider patterns of use (Biber & Conrad 2011;Cresdee & Johnston 2014). They also cannot reflect developmental patterns and acquisition factors, as there is not enough research on this yet.…”

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Describing spatial layouts as an L2M2 signed language learner

Ferrara

Nilsson

2017

SL&L

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This study explores the L2M2 acquisition of Norwegian Sign Language by hearing adults, with a focus on the production and use of depicting signs. A group of students and their instructors were asked to respond to prompt questions about directions and locations in Norwegian Sign Language, and their responses were then compared. An examination of the students’ depicting signs shows that they struggled more with the phonological parameters orientation and movement, rather than with handshape. In addition, they used fewer depicting signs than their instructors, and instead relied more on lexical signs. Finally, students were found to struggle with the coordination of depicting signs within the signing space and in relation to their own bodies. It is hoped that the findings from this study can be used to inform future research as well as curricula development and pedagogy.

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Describing spatial layouts as an L2M2 signed language learner

Ferrara

Nilsson

2017

SL&L

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“…Work [26] emphasizes the role of the SLs corpora in the process of teaching SL as a second language (L2). There is noted the problem of lack of standardized materials for SL teaching by what teachers rely on their intuition about the language what very often causes that language is overgeneralized or oversimplified and not based on naturalistic corpora.…”

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“…Corpus analysis helps to provide more objective view of the SL. Work [26] lists four important steps that should be taken to incorporate corpus linguistic elements into SL classes: the first, foundationalrefers to teachers knowledge, not intuition, about language; the secondrefers to awareness of differences that may occur between intuition and knowledge; the thirdrefers to implementation of corpus based knowledge into classroom practice; the fourthintegration of corpusbased and teaching materials, including video clips with natural examples of discussed signs, vocabulary, grammatical structures.…”

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Using Components of Corpus Linguistics and Annotation Tools in Sign Language Teaching

Barczewska¹,

Gałka²,

Szulc³

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IJMECS

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As an interdisciplinary group of people working on automatic sign language recognition, authors of the article developed concept how to facilitate the process of understanding Sign Language (SL) utterances by hearing learners. Concept is based on Polish SL, and was created in response to signals from the students who indicate understanding of SL messages as the hardest part of learning process, but can be easily adapted to other SLs. In comparison to speech corpora, SL databases constitute only a small fraction. From the other side thanks to the Internet there are available video recordings with native-signers, as well as tools which enable their analysis. Developed concept is based on using one of the available annotation tools used by professionals all over the world to describe SL corpora in SL classes. Making annotations helps students in understanding foreign language, corpora analysis helps to find objective rules governing SL, computer assisted language learning can be attractive way of study and Internetgreat source of materials.Index Terms-Sign language, annotation tools, computer-assisted language learning, sign language corpora. AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland in 2009. Since then he is a PhD student at AGH. He co-authored several scientific publications on digital signal processing and data analysis as well as a European patent related to biometrics. Rafał is a co-founder and CEO of Consonace, a firm implementing R&D strategies for biomedical industry companies.

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Using Corpus-Based Research to Inform the Teaching of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) as a Second Language

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Describing spatial layouts as an L2M2 signed language learner

Describing spatial layouts as an L2M2 signed language learner

Using Components of Corpus Linguistics and Annotation Tools in Sign Language Teaching

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