Polish Sign Language - practical course A1 3003-PJMOA1
The aim of the A1 course is to introduce a basic set of signs that cover the following fields: personal pronouns, cardinal and ordinary numerals, everyday expressions, names of things, family, adjectives and adverbs, affirmation and negation, colors, time and calendar, finger alphabet, weather, journey, names of countries and cities, landscape and scenery, appearance vs. personality, the Deaf community, Easter, in the cafeteria or restaurant.
Some elements of the SW notation will be introduced to help the student memorize sign shapes. SW makes it possible to write PSL expressions down and read them.
The grammar module includessuch issues as simple structures of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences, the use of space, non-manual elements, intensity parameter of adjectives and adverbs, agreement verbs, numeral incorporation, dynamics of movement.
The student will get some knowledge about the Deaf, their culture and their visual-spatial languages.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
After the A1 course the student is expected to understand simple PSL questions and be able to answer those that concern everyday matters. They will use simple sentences and expressions to describe places they come from and people they know.
Assessment criteria
1. attendance: 15%
2. class activity: 10%
3. final test: 85%
Bibliography
Obligatory:
Materials prepared by the teacher (in Polish and SW), digital dictionaries.
Optional:
Świdziński M., Czajkowska-Kisil M., Czy głuchoniemy jest naprawdę niemy? Kosmos T.47 Nr.3 s. 243-250.
Długołęcka L., Pismo migowe, które zachwyca głuchych na całym świecie, Świat Ciszy nr 9, 2004.
Długołęcka L., Pasja Pana Wöhrmanna, Świat Ciszy V i VI, 2005.
Długołęcka L., Niesłyszący i niedosłyszący w Polsce, Studia nad Językiem Migowym, 2006 (http://ipjm.pl/strona/pl/index.html).
Farris M. A., Sign Language Research and Polish Sign Language, w "Lingua Posnaniensis" nr 36, 1994, s. 13-36.
Lane H., Maska dobroczynności. Deprecjacja społeczności głuchych, Warszawa 1996.
Minirozmówki migowo(PJM)-polskie i polsko-migowe(PJM), red I. Grzesiak, Olsztyn 2008
Studia nad kompetencją językową i komunikacją niesłyszących, red. M. Świdziński i T. Gałkowski, Warszawa 2003.
Szczepankowski B., Podstawy języka migowego, wyd. II poprawione i uzupełnione, Warszawa 1994.
www.signwriting.org
www.ipjm.pl
Additional information
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: