ASL AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

By: Colby Daugherty

WRD 110-009

O What is silence?O Deaf people in

the hearing culture.

O I was never a part of the Deaf culture until my senior year.

http://monsterdad69.blogspot.com/2012/05/incredible-hulk-1977.html

Pre-KSDActively a part of the hearing culture.Ignorant of the Deaf culture.

All six photos above are personal photos of mine circa 2005-2008.

Taken by a photographer for Ohio County Times-News during my interview in 2005 which showed up in newspapers.

Circumstances

• Things added up…• The sum had drawn me to KSD

http://saintcityproject.com/choices/

New School More than that… Different world.

http://pottsarch.com/jacobs-hall-kentucky-school-for-the-deaf/

*Different Culture

*No longer a need to speak.

*Signing everywhere.Personal photo of mine taken by my mother in January, 2010.

http://wai-taiwan.com/2011/01/deaf-movies-and-taiwanese-culture/

Behavioral Rules What is considered a polite way to get

attentions? What is considered rude?

SigningO Facial expressions are

complementary to American Sign Language.

http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/whfacialexpression.htm

ASL versus SEE

ASL was developed as a language of its own, it was not based on any previous language.

SEE was based on English.

ASL

Distinct order of words. Very different from English. It can only be roughly translated to

English.

ASL users are typically, but not all, poor in English.

Incorrect order of words but yet so similar in fashion.

They usually had problems with helping verbs.

ASL as First Language

Why?

Most of the KSD students I have came across had problems with English but why were they so similar in the way they wrote English?

Any ideas?

ASL Syntax

Incorporation of ASL syntax and grammatical rules into English as it is written.

It does not work that way because they are completely different languages.

PERSPECTIVE• Stereotype- Almost illiterate?

• Fact- English as a foreign language to them.

http://wordpress.lixiaolai.

THE END

Any questions?

Sources• Blogspot.com- “monsterdad69”• saintcityproject.com- Found via Google Images• pottsarch.com- Website dedicated to Jacobs Hall

on KSD campus• wai-taiwan.com- Foreign website dedicated to the

deaf in movie industry found via Google Images• lifeprint.com- Website dedicated to ASL and Bill

Vicars is the ASL expert pictured• wordpress.lixiaolai- Blog of a foreign person found

via Google Images• The rest are personal photos of mine.