Teaching and learning materials

With this activity the students are discovering the existence of different sign languages and codes.
The teacher introduces the lesson by making a sign and the students realize that they use signs and gestures every day.
The students read a comic strip presenting a situation with a problem of oral and body communication. The students are given a worksheet of representations of signs.
The students form five groups: each group receives a worksheet containing information and two worksheets containing activities. Among the activities to be done by the group are there discussions based on some questions, role-plays and the creation of a poster.
When the groups are done with their activities they explain the activity to the rest of the class.
The students are asked to form new groups: each group imagines to organize an excursion with deaf students. Each group introduces his excursion to the rest of the class.

Approach: 1- Awakening to languages/ 2- Intercomprehension

Type of material: Iconic documents

Source:
De Smedt, H., Leon H., Schrauwen W. (2003). Meer dan één taalbeschouwing. Een lessenpakket over talen, meertaligheid en taaldiversiteit. Brussel: Cel Onderwijs & Meertaligheid. p. 1-20.