The past few weeks I have spent some time with ASL (American Sign Language). I can proudly say that I have mastered the alphabet and numbers 1-10. While this doesn’t seem like a huge accomplishment, I wanted to spend a lot of time making sure I mastered the basics because “without an adequate level of initial learning, transfer cannot be expected” (Bransford et al. 2000). I want to have a really strong transfer ability because one of my final goals is to be able to sign a sentence using finger spelling and hopefully a few words I learn. My next goal is to sign at least 25 most common words to help me with this final goal. One challenge that I have encountered this week was not being able to understand what others are signing. While I know this will take a LOT of time and practice, I had trouble finding resources to help me understand what others sign. It is easy to look up how to sign something but not as simple to find out what someone signed without much context. The most helpful resource I found was a “reverse dictionary” where I can find words by how they looked when signed. I ran into this issue when I shared a video of my learning with my Aunt. She sent me a video responding in ASL, but I was not sure what she said. After a lot of investigation, I found it translated to “good work”. You can see in these short videos that I have mastered the alphabet and I am excited to start signing more words! If you want to follow along, I have documented a vlog of my learning journey on my YouTube here!
References: Bransford, J., Brown, A.L. & Cocking, R. R. (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience and school. National Academy Press. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309070368. https://www.handspeak.com/ Abb, M. (2022). A-F Gif [Digital Image]. EZGif. https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif/ezgif-2-8c866002d4.mov Abb, M. (2022). F-L Gif [Digital Image]. EZGif. https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif/ezgif-2-8c866002d4.mov Abb, M. (2022). M-R Gif [Digital Image]. EZGif. https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif/ezgif-2-8c866002d4.mov Abb, M. (2022). S-Z Gif [Digital Image]. EZGif. https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif/ezgif-2-8c866002d4.mov Abb, M. (2022, June 14). NLP Update 2 [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Hp21z8KbmzM
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