Sign Language as a Catalyst for Inclusive Language Education
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Valeria Burdi describes introducing American Sign Language (ASL) to support English teaching, presenting a 2018 classroom project that used bimodal (visual+auditory) and kinesthetic learning to make language lessons joyful and effective. She outlines concrete tools and activities for using ASL in mixed deaf/hearing or hearing-only classes and discusses how teaching one language through another can create a more inclusive linguistic education.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:04Sperimentazione origin
- 10:15Language and inclusion
- 16:24Bimodal and multimodal learning
- 21:03Teaching tools
- 30:54Spread Design demo
- 35:18Sentence grammar
- 38:57Innovative activities
- 41:52Conclusion
- 47:12Q&A
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