What is Signed English (SE)? Patricia Pritchard cand polit Audiopedagog Statped vest

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  A  A = fingerspell a  An  An = fingerspell a-n  The  The = fingerspell t, twist your wrist clockwise

A or An???? an  We use an in front of nouns that start with a vowel sound a e i o u BSL helps us remember the vowels!

Pronouns Subjects  I, youthey  I, you, (entall) they (subject) = point  He  He = man + point  She  She = woman + pointObjects  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 eats  Habitual = verb + s He eats dinner every day. singing  Present participle = verb + curl. He is singing in the bath. worked  Past tense = verb + before. He worked at the school for a year. have worked  Past participle = have/has or stop + verb. I have 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  Do  Do = fingerspell d on ”o” finger  Did  Did =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!!!