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Turning Literacy Inside Out - Coggle Diagram
Turning Literacy Inside Out
Research that is biased or not completely accurate
"because deaf children do not have access to spoken language, research on them based on a model that comes from a different population is not without the risk of making interpretations that inadvertently fosters mistaken notions about deaf children's abilities and needs" (page 147).
"Deaf children's difficulty with reading and writing is often interpreted to be a direct result of not having phonological knowledge of English" (page 147).
Writing
People of different backgrounds that do not have western languages have analogical based languages. Meaning that the use of gestures go hand in hand with grammar when speaking.
However, writing is more of a digital symbol in communication because it does not show intonations, gestures, and facial expression thus the person writing has to make for that by using more words and punctuation.
Due to it being more digital the author has expressed that writing becomes more difficult and challenging (page 148).
Linguist
"There are structures of ASL such as classifiers that linguist are now beginning to understand as digitally based symbols being used as analogic devices for describing gradiency in verbs in motion, in verbs of location, and in appearance and shapes of objects" (page 148).
However, with that paragraph above I do agree that analogic-based symbols are used in sign language, and its the most prominent. But, I don't agree with the fact that its "digitally-based symbols being used as analogic devices". How could I agree when the author stated that digitally-based symbol is writing and they only described it as such (page 148). If they were going to state this they should have elaborated on what they meant especially pertaining to digital-based symbols.
Using analogic representation in ASL is prominent and can be seen in degreed modes depending on how the sign is uses with the addition of body language and facial expression.
Inference-making skills
Inference-making skills are important for other individuals to gleam or connect what they know to get more information from the story or situation being told.
On page 149 the author uses an example of a written passage about a man and a woman. They then talk about how it would work in ASL on page 150; the narrator would become each character and use facial expression, eye gaze, body motion, etc. to showcase the story.
However, the author then states on page 150 that "cognitive requirements are needed to infer and remember what happened in the story to do so whereas with writing you can re-read the story over and over again.
But, what the author did not mention or perhaps did not consider is that native signers have improved and more advanced spatial, cognitive skills then that of hearing people and in my opinion would be able to remember the entire story and be able to make inference right away.
Being Literate
The author states that not being able to read or write doesn't make someone Illiterate. For example, on page 154 the author talks about a young man that dyslexic.
The man had low board scores and grades and no one wanted to accept him as a student at their college because of that.
That didn't deter him and he was able to get into one and got good grades because he had his friend to read the books to him, type up a rough draft of his papers and he would edit. His inability to do those things did not make him Illiterate. He just needed to be tested and learn a different why, orally.