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Language ExperienceMarissa Martian and Co!een Matosof
Fa! 2010
An Example of a LE Story
What needs does LE address?
Needs direct instruction in ASL
Needs to express personal needs/wants in ASL
Needs to explain an event or experience with appropriate ASL
Needs to communicate in writing needs and wants
Needs functional living skills
The Big Picture
Language Experience to ASL Composition to Written English
LE helps students with limited language express a common experience through ASL (ASL Composition) which can be translated into written English.
Students are working at the challenging level of literacy, and require adult support.
What is Language Experience?
An approach to reading and expressive language instruction based on activities and stories developed from personal experiences of the learner.
The stories about personal experiences are written down/signed by a teacher and read/viewed together until the learner associates the written form of the word with the spoken.
Consists of student initiated projects that result in a written product at the challenging level.
Language Experience
Models the thinking and writing process
Develops writing skills and/or expressive ASL skills
Introduces different writing/ASL genres
Demonstrates writing conventions and ASL grammar
Promotes re-reading / re-viewing
Teaches writing/composing for a purpose and an audience
Benefits of LE
It brings together writing, reading, art/technology, and language.
It helps learners make connections to printed English or composed American Sign Language.
It is learner-centered
It provides predictable reading material because it uses the learners' natural language.
LE ProcessStudents initiate the experience
Students and teachers document the experience through pictures, video, or notes
Teacher translates the students’ sign language into written English
Ask students to sign what they are thinking
Adult acts as a scribe
Adult signs back what is written
Students and teachers use the text for reading instruction
Adult thinks along (models) the process
Students contribute to the graphics
Using ASL for LEASL is the natural language so is most appropriate as the target language goal.
Written English may or may not be the primary component, depending on the purpose.
Appropriate ASL is modeled and emphasized as part of the ASL composition process.
Students have viewing opportunities
Students create ASL literature
LE ProcessExperience
Discussion
Pictures and modeled ASL are used
Events are sequenced and recapped
Student choose pictures of interest for composing.
Students follow ASL composition guidelines before publishing their work.
ASL published work can be the final project goal or a series of mini lessons can begin related to English vocabulary development and reading.
ASL Composition
Comparable to a writing assignment students compose in American Sign Language.
Students follow a ASL composition rubric
Students are given opportunities to learn using their natural language.
Students are exposed to an environment where ASL is valued
ASL COMPOSITION
Fingerspelling
Eye Contact
Appearance
Framing
Role Shifting
ASL COMP GUIDELINES
ASL COMP GUIDELINES
Get ready for the experience
Halloween Trail Mix
What will you need?
• pretzels
• raisins
• candy corn
• popcorn
• plastic serving gloves
• string
Halloween Trail Mix
• Add candy corn for fingertips
• Add Pretzels as fingers
• Mix popcorn and raisins together
• Add popcorn & raisins to complete the hand
• Close plastic glove and tie with string
Roles and Responsibilities
• Two groups of four or five
• Who will get the ingredients? (one person)
• Who will take pictures? (one person/EA)
• Who will hold the plastic glove? (one person)
• Who will add the ingredients? (one-three people)
~Break~
Colleen will upload pictures and add them to iPhoto for a slide show so we can review our experience.
Discuss (in ASL)
REVIEW PICS in iPhoto Slide Show
What did we do?
Who did what?
Why did we do that?
Was it easy or hard?
What did you like or didn’t like about it?
Sequence (w/pictures)
Students choose pictures
Students then sequence pictures (1st, 2nd...)
First students try independently then teacher/EAs will assist
ASL review/explanation of pictures
Tell Me About Your Picture
iMovie lesson (COLLEEN)
Following ASL composition rubric explain:
what is happening in the picture?Sharing
ASL COMP GUIDELINES
ASL COMP GUIDELINES
SHARING
Make Book
Another LE Example
Continuing On...Translation Process
Adding English
invented spelling
modeling English
Writers’ Workshop
My ideas for Writing...
ASL Workshop
Vocabulary
Translation ProcessWriters’ Workshop
First draft
Possible Individualized Mini Lessons:
adding English
invented spelling (Pita)
drawing / added graphics (Ian)
Vocabulary
Language Experience to ASL Composition to Written English
LE helps students with limited language express a common experience through ASL (ASL Composition) which can be translated into written English.
Students are working at the challenging level of literacy, and require adult support.
ANY QUESTIONS?