Spoken Language Instruction

Introduction

Last updated 9/9/04 3:49 PM HW

Language is learned through interaction. Deaf and hard of hearing individuals using spoken English can work with instructors to jointly construct meaning. This type of activity gives them opportunities to formulate ideas and improve their spoken and written English. Instruction that links oral and written literacy appears to help students employ certain linguistic structures both in their written and spoken communication.

Mediated learning strategies may be used to help students create comprehensible utterances that correctly convey their communicative intent. Students engage in analyzing their own discourse via a visual presentation of their texts. This places students in the role of receiver, enabling them to utilize metacognitive strategies to determine whether their utterances convey what they mean. Students can modify utterances or they can progressively build utterances that accomplish their intended meaning.

Language Instruction
In these examples a student is working with an instructor to revise a PowerPoint presentation to accompany a speech to be delivered in a class. Through a feedback and analysis process the student progressively arrives at a message that conveys the intended information.

Syntactic/language Instruction (Marianne’s segments with ppt)

In the following examples a student is using feedback to analyze and revise her explanation to improve the comprehensibility of her message.

Syntactic/language Instruction2 (Rachel segments here)

 

Semantic

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  • Word categories
    • John's IVE clips
  • Vocabulary Sid/Allen_Dino
    • Latin/Greek Videos

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