It is often a challenge to help our students gain receptive skills. We want them to see fluent users of the language besides ourselves. For those of us who teach advanced signing classes, this is especially critical to the advancement of their skills. DeafTV is an excellent resource for our more advanced students to submerge themselves in the Deaf Community.
DeafTV has several channels from entertaining stories to academic presentations. All of the vlogs on this site are created by individuals within the community. Students will be able to see how language is produced by actual users of the language rather than by textbook drawings.
You can have your students select a video to watch and them have them analyze it for different language features that you are discussing in class, like: role-shifting, facial expression, and spatial agreement. You could also have students gloss the video and then copy-sign it on their own vlog.
How else might DeafTV or similar resources be used in your ASL Classroom?
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