Asl gloss

Reba said:
Two are deceased. All the others, over the years, have moved out of state. I correspond with some but not much.
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It's tough to correspond much when the primary communication method is hieroglyphics.
 
I Googled ASL Green Books. Are these the books by Charlotte Baker-Shenk and Dennis Cokely?
 
PatsCats said:
I Googled ASL Green Books. Are these the books by Charlotte Baker-Shenk and Dennis Cokely?
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Yes. I don't have them yet, but am planning on getting them.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/American-Language-Green-Books-Students/dp/0930323866]Amazon.com: American Sign Language Green Books, A Student's Text Units 1-9 (Green Book Series) (9780930323868): Charlotte Baker-Shenk, Dennis Cokely: Books[/ame]
 
Juli-terp-to-be said:
Wow. I was told that these books were ancient and worthless compared to the Signing Naturally book series. I guess I will look into them.
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I have the first book for the signing naturally series. I will admit, I don't devote as much time as I should and I will have to start soon. The DVD drive on my computer will not play the DVD for the book. I have to use the one at the TV which is a problem with my family.
 
When I sign the way I talk it's ok when itrhto sign in ASL gloss I suck I'm so confused on sentence structure
 
I'm in ASL 201 and I have the old Signing Naturally 1 & 2 (1993). But the students coming up behind me now, even the 102's have a new Edition (don't know what year). The book has many more pages, the images are photos, not drawings like in mine, and the dialogs on the DVD are against a white background, which makes it very difficult to watch. Not an improvement in my opinion.

What I'd like to see is ASL Glossing just as we (hearies) learned English, in a book on Sentence Structure. I know the sentence structure is OSV, and in simple sentences that's fine. ("Put the keys on the television" becomes "TV keys put-on"). But for more complex sentences, I don't know how to structure them. ("Put the keys on the TV or the refrigerator so I can find them later" becomes what? "TV or refrigerator keys put-on I later find"?) Or even more complex sentences than that.

Do the Green Books help with this? The Signing Naturally series doesn't seem to.

I realize ASL is not a written language, but seeing correct syntax would be very helpful, especially if you are going into a career where it will be of the utmost importance.
 
Try not to get hung-up on glossing. It's just a notation tool for ASL. It's not something you'll use often in daily signing life.

ASL sentence structure doesn't use clauses strung together into complex sentences. There are no Dickens-type sentences in ASL.

Take a long English sentence and break it into several shorter ASL sentences. Also, use rhetorical questions.

Don't your instructors cover any of this?
 
Mrs Bucket said:
Travis,

If you take ASL in college, this is taught differently.

It is difficult to try to explain to you ... I learned this in college and I'm going to try to do it so you can understand.

ASL has locatives and for students to learn, instructors teach using descriptive locatives.

For example I will use this..

Bruise on arm and it s round..

It comes out as BCL because it is descriptive and a locator.

You would not find this on the internet because it is in the Green Book and the ASL series book.
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Reba said:
Try not to get hung-up on glossing. It's just a notation tool for ASL. It's not something you'll use often in daily signing life.

ASL sentence structure doesn't use clauses strung together into complex sentences. There are no Dickens-type sentences in ASL.

Take a long English sentence and break it into several shorter ASL sentences. Also, use rhetorical questions.

Don't your instructors cover any of this?
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Sort of. No one mentioned breaking English sentences into smaller bits, but it makes sense now that you mention it. We did learn that, after you mention one thing, you say "finish," then go on to the next thing. We learned about Rhetorical Questions, but I don't remember learning when exactly to use them.

Thanx!
 
Reba said:
Try not to get hung-up on glossing. It's just a notation tool for ASL. It's not something you'll use often in daily signing life.

ASL sentence structure doesn't use clauses strung together into complex sentences. There are no Dickens-type sentences in ASL.

Take a long English sentence and break it into several shorter ASL sentences. Also, use rhetorical questions.

Don't your instructors cover any of this?
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Mine doesn't she says gloss gloss gloss, or we are to busy writing papers to do anything or we are preparing damn power point presentations to do in front of the entire class.
 
My deaf club has said that one should not stress on the glossing as it will become natural with time. I had been worried that I was really making a mess of things and not doing well and I have gotten a few compliments from my deaf club. Even though I use mostly PSE, they are pleased with my slow progress.
 
ember said:
Mine doesn't she says gloss gloss gloss, or we are to busy writing papers to do anything or we are preparing damn power point presentations to do in front of the entire class.
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ember said:
Mine doesn't she says gloss gloss gloss, or we are to busy writing papers to do anything or we are preparing damn power point presentations to do in front of the entire class.
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Why do power point? Shouldn't you be making any presentation in ASL in a beginning class?
 
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