What is Signed English (SE)?

Patricia Pritchard cand polit

Audiopedagog

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Hva er Signed English?

Bruker noen tegn fra BSL, bokstaveringer og noen oppkonstruerte tegn brukes simultant med talespråket

SE viser bøyninger (markers) og små ord (generated signs) som ikke brukes i BSL grammatikk

Kan sammenlignes med tegnspråk norsk

Nyttig i undervisning av engelsk grammatikk

Brukes av utdannet pedagog som har kunnskap om tegnspråk

Signed English…

kan brukes for å illustrere engelsk setningsstruktur

kan brukes for å øve inn faste uttrykk og strukturer

gjør det mulig å visualisere og fokusere på små ord og endelser

Signed English

Nouns

Flertall s = tegn + s

Genetiv s = tegn + the right little finger sweeps up and flicks past the left one

Articles

AA = fingerspell a

AnAn = fingerspell a-n

TheThe = fingerspell t, twist your wrist clockwise

A or An????

We use anan in front of nouns that start with a vowel sound a e i o u

BSL helps us remember the vowels!

Pronouns

SubjectsSubjects I, youI, you, (entall) they they

(subject) = point He He = man + point She She = woman + point

ObjectsObjects Me, you, them, us, Me, you, them, us,

(object) =flat hand Him Him = guess what! Her Her = guess what!

Possessives

My, your, its, our, their, own

His = man + your

Her = woman + your

Mine, yours, ours,theirs = sign + extra your

Reflexive pronouns

Myself = my + 1 moving downwards

Yourself = your + 1 moving downwards

Himself = man + 1moving downwards

Herself = woman + 1 moving downwards

Itself = point + 1 moving downwards

Ourselves = our + 1 moving downwards

Verb inflections

Habitual = verb + s He eats eats dinner every day.

Present participle = verb + curl. He is singingsinging in the bath.

Past tense = verb + before. He workedworked at the school for a year.

Past participle = have/has or stop + verb. I have workedhave worked as a teacher.

-ing

-ed

Have/has

stop

Auxillary verbs – to be (fingerspell T+O B)

Is = 1 +

Are = 5 +

Am = m +

Signs curve downwards, ending palm up

Was and were

Was = 1 + moves backwards towards body

Were = 3 + moves backwards towards body

Auxiliary verbs

DoDo = fingerspell d on ”o” finger

DidDid =fingerspell d on ”i” finger

Contracted verb forms

’s (He’s my friend) = s

’re (You’re my friend) =r

’ve (I’ve two friends) = v

’d (I’d like you to be my friend)

= d

’ll (I’ll be your friend)= l

’m (I’m your friend) =m

Fingerspill letter and twist off left palm to palm up

Not contracted form - n’t:wasn’t, isn’t,

n’t utføres with one hand. Exception: can’t – has its own sign CANNOT

Fingerspell

small words: if, of, at, as, so, for example = e+g

Fingerspell affixes and suffixes:

sunny = SUN + y,

heavier = HEAVY + ER,

unhappy = U+N+HAPPY

Connectives

And

Sign similar to «you», but with palm up.

Twist wrist anticlockwise,ending palm down.

We must have instant recognition of small, high frequency words

Games:

Quick!! Fly swatting

Lightening flash cards

My Reading TV

Fishing Game, bingo, memory etc

ICT games can be useful in drill exercises.

Motivating, repetisjon, instant feedback.

It is questionable whether they help in language development if conversation with others is not part of the exercise, during the game and afterwards.

Can lead to guessing, not thinking

These words make up 1/3 of all text. Most have their own SE sign

the

of (fingerspell)

and

a

to (fingerspell)

in

is

you

that

it

he

was

for

on

are

as (fingerspell)

with

his

they

I

at (fingerspell)

be (Letter B)

this

have

from

or

Alle er ikke lydrette og må læres!!!