American Sign Language Dictionary Author: Martin L. A. Sternberg | Language: English | ISBN:
0613672569 | Format: PDF
American Sign Language Dictionary Description
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This third edition, an abridgement of American Sign Language, features more than 500 new signs in a guide to the third most common language in the United States.
- School & Library Binding: 800 pages
- Publisher: Turtleback; 3rd Revised edition edition (October 1, 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0613672569
- ISBN-13: 978-0613672566
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.8 x 2.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Sternberg's ASL Dictionary is the most incredible resource for American Sign Language, that I have found on the market. As a certified teacher of the deaf, of ESL, and of Foreign Languages, I have used this book for many years in all three contexts.
I love the fact that Sternberg includes 5,000+ signs, and that he offers more than one sign for many words. Parents and teachers of deaf children will recognize the derivation of the signs for a particular word, and be able to choose which sign would be most appropriate for their own context, age group, etc. The signs are given in ASL (American Sign Language#, but several versions of the sign are available, so users of Signed English or of SEE will also benefit. Obviously, teachers of the deaf need one comprehensive dictionary with various versions of signs for a word, to clarify multiple meanings. I have not seen that feature in my other Sign books.
If you teach foreign languages in North America, you know that TPR #Total Physical Response# and TPRS #Total Physical Response Storytelling# are the single most effective method of teaching the students in your classroom to speak in a foreign language today. TPR / TPRS is very simply the use of Sign Language simultaneously with speech in the foreign language. If you use Sternberg's ASL signs #rather than Signed English or SEE#, the sign will be more universal, since it was not created originally for English. ASL has already crossed language barriers, and will help your FL students grasp and retain the new vocabulary in the lesson more easily.
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