Sign language narrative skills in the classroom

• Main Authors: Maria Mertzani, Janie Cristine Amaral
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Educação de Surdos 2018-06-01
• Series: Revista Espaço
• Online Access: http://www.ines.gov.br/seer/index.php/revista-espaco/article/view/435

<div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This paper demonstrates a Libras version of the poem As abelhas (The bees) by Vinícius de Moraes, and suggests a way in which it can be ela</span><span>borated for the teaching of the specific language as the first language of deaf children at the initial </span><span>school period (year 1 or year 2) of primary school. In doing so, and considering the fact that sign </span><span>languages are highly visual and “oral” langua</span><span>ges (with no standard script or written form), we </span><span>present practical tasks (e.g. match-the-sign, fill</span><span>-in-the-gap tasks) through an holistic approach, adopting communicative language techniques, as well as certain practices and strategies inspi</span>red by current indigenous languages (for they are oral languages) and by their pedagogies.</p></div></div></div>