CNN Article....
Oct. 23rd, 2004 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Deaf students struggle with English to get diplomas
Notable quotes:
Deaf students like Lane who have relied their entire lives on the shorthand of sign language to communicate often have a tough time catching on to the subtleties of the written word, which can be as hard to pick up as a second language.
Shorthand of sign language? Hard to pick up as a second language? Dude, it is a second language! Signed languages are separate languages from spoken languages! As for "subtleties of the written word", what they mean is "subtleties of English". There are, apparently, methods for writing in various signed languages.
Sign language is visual, and isn't always translated word for word into English.
Thank you, Captain Obvious! I never knew that sign language is visual!
The Mississippi school is appealing to state officials to allow deaf students to use a thesaurus, an accommodation made for non-English speaking students in the school system, such as Hispanics and Vietnamese.
1. I'm not going to repeat that they are non-English speaking
2. Wait, yes I am.
*grumbles*
The main points of this article (these schools aren't teaching English properly to deaf kids) are right on, but... gah. It offends my linguistic sensibilities.
Notable quotes:
Deaf students like Lane who have relied their entire lives on the shorthand of sign language to communicate often have a tough time catching on to the subtleties of the written word, which can be as hard to pick up as a second language.
Shorthand of sign language? Hard to pick up as a second language? Dude, it is a second language! Signed languages are separate languages from spoken languages! As for "subtleties of the written word", what they mean is "subtleties of English". There are, apparently, methods for writing in various signed languages.
Sign language is visual, and isn't always translated word for word into English.
Thank you, Captain Obvious! I never knew that sign language is visual!
The Mississippi school is appealing to state officials to allow deaf students to use a thesaurus, an accommodation made for non-English speaking students in the school system, such as Hispanics and Vietnamese.
1. I'm not going to repeat that they are non-English speaking
2. Wait, yes I am.
*grumbles*
The main points of this article (these schools aren't teaching English properly to deaf kids) are right on, but... gah. It offends my linguistic sensibilities.
