CJB

Even just a summary of what the video is about specifically would be great. So far I get that English is best taught through ASL.

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Maria

James knows how to help. Good video, by the way Pinky! Thanks for sharin' it with us.

Frisky Feline

I d like to see more examples than that this those these. Let's see if it's working for anyone. If i learn like this way when i was a kid. i probably ask lot of questions like i always do. ha

KarissaMann05

CJB - I'll do the transcription so it is ten minutes. It will take me a while to finish it.

Hang on!

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NOTE: I summarized it since it's pretty longer one. I just tried to do my best...

The black background, and there was a white text, and read, "Without ASL, English is IMPOSSIBLE."

James: Hello, how are you? Good? Good. Okay. I want to say something about self. I'm James Kittell. I accepted ASL media. You know, the ASL Expo is under ASL Media.

Faded out into the black background. The white text appeared, and read, "ASLE".

James: A-S-L-E. You know, Sign Exact English but what is an ASLE? ASL matched English for various schools. I offered ASLE to them. Why? Most people had a hard time to deal with English writing and, they were not able to understand better. We explained the basics to support understanding the English. Then, They could understand. For an example, a teacher explains English, like - "A ball is rolling". Students listen a teacher's address that he/she taught kids for 18 years. Yet, students still didn't get it and didn't understand the meaning of English. They struggled for each year... After graduation, after 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, and until they get old, and they still struggled to understand the English.

James: We figured it out how to solve the problem with all struggles, and to figure it out how help deaf people to understand more clear. For explain, people who have advanced skills with engineer, telemessage, and anything with their own hands. Why? Those people already see to recognize easily and remember something. Like, a person shows a deaf person how to make a something that deaf person can see what someone else can do. He or she will remember so easy. He or she will do it in no time and have no problem in future. All visual eyes can tell what to do and what to not do, they'll know immediately.

James: Now, go back to the point, there is English that teacher teaches students with cue speech, SEE, PSE, and any sign lagnuage but they only see no visual in the sentence, "A ball is rolling". They still struggled to recognize a word because there is nothing to see something in it. No visual. During and after eighteen years, they still don't get it.

James: ASLE. Wow! You will feel so disappoint and feel wish you learn ASLE at your school when you are a young child. Okay. Any school don't need ASL. What for? PSE is the best one! No, cue speech is! No, SEE is the best! Go on... That explains why many deaf people still have a trouble with understanding the English. That's sad. Is it your fault? No, it's certainly not your fault. They just don't have any manual book for ASLE to help little students to learn the English reading and writing better. That's one big problem. Okay, ASLE should show ASL Expo to announce everyone and you. But, sadly, ASLE is hold on because there is no supporters to support it... Let's talk about it later. Now, I want you to watch me what and how ASL is matching to English. Is it long explanation? No. It's only, maybe, 30 to 40 seconds to make a simple explanation. That is it. You guys will realize how much it is so easy and feel so disappoint that you never thought of it. You just don't know. It's not matter if you are so intelligent, it's not matter if it is one word, one sentence, or to understand English basics... I will do the video blogs to teach you a few things about ASLE. I will continue to update a video blog about it sometimes. But, instead of that, please, I want you to call people to go to ASL Expo and support ASLE. Why? When deaf people learn ASLE, their writing will be improved in a month to a few months. It's very clear and understandable to recognize the English. How? We give ASLE DVDs to people and you'll learn better than before! Faster! No need eighteen years to study it, you'll have only a few months to learn it. That depends how much you are eager to practice it. Are you ready to learn ASLE? (Smiles) (Nodding)
Faded away to the black background.
Suddenly, the screen appeared. There is James Kittell, he sat on a chair and the wooden table. He spin the basketball on his finger before he stopped the spinning. He held the ball and pointed it with his finger.

James: See a sentence?
A white text appears behind a faded black background row, and reads, "A ball is rolling".

Jamessigns in SEE) A ball is rolling.

He pushed softly a ball to roll, and stopped it. He rolled it a few times.

James: (signs in ASL) See "-ing" and see "is". A ball is always rolling, right? That is an "-ing" because it moves as it rolls. See? A ball is moving that is an "-ing" at the end of verb word.

Faded away to the black background.

Kittell reappeared again. There was a blue book on the wooden table.

James: "T-H-I-S" and "T-H-A-T". What do it mean? What is different between of two words? Okay. See a book? (points at this book) I'm close to it. It is a "this" word because I am close to the book. (put the book away to, presumably, edge of the table) It is a "that" because it is far from me. (grabs it to move him closer) This is my book.
A white text appears behind a faded black background row, and reads, "This is my book".

James: (put the book away to, presumably, edge of the table) If a book is far or a person takes a book away, the sentence will say, "That is my book."A white text appears behind a faded black background row, and reads, "That is my book".
Faded away into the black background. Kittell reappeared again.

James: "T-H-E-S-E" and "T-H-O-S-E". What are two different words? Before I can explain, be remember I explained two words, "this" and "that" are focus on only one number. Now -- (moves three thick books on the wooden table to near him)A white text appears behind a faded black background row, and reads, "These are my books".

James:"These are my book."Like the "this" word, the word, "these", is what things are closer to me. (moves three thick books toward an edge of the table)

A white text appears behind a faded black background row, and reads, "Those are my books".

James:"Those are my book."Like the "that" word, the word, "those", is what things are far from me. To make sure you understand two differences: one is for "this" & "that" and more than two is for "these" & "those".

Faded away to the black background.

Kittell reappeared.

James: "M-A-N-Y" and "M-U-C-H". What are two different words? Be remember. Look at my fingers. It's easy to count. Ten fingers. That is "many." (KARISSAMANN05's words) You can count a few hundreds students at any school. You can count dogs. Count flowers, or whatever you can count easily. (/KARISSAMANN05's words) There, "much". It's too impossible to count. For example, can you count cars in this country? Too many! How much particles are in a milk? One million, maybe, three billions. Too impossible to count! Can you count sands at beach? (shrugs) Too impossible. (KARISSAMANN05's words) Many is for somethings that is easy to count. Much is for somethings that you cannot count so easy. (/KARISSAMANN05's words)

Faded away to the black background.

Kittell reappeared once again.

James: See four different screens? All of them are a short explanation, and that is all. That is ASLE. Not PSE, SEE, speech sue, and any sign language. Only ASLE. ASL prefectly matches English! Now you get it and understand better. Now... I will update a video blog about ASLE (sometimes/daily?) to teach you guys. It's understanding so simple, and it's save a time lot. It's not long explanation. But, please support ASL Expo and encourage people to go there because we will give you ASLE dvds. An ASLE dvd has three CDs. All total numbers in the case is seventy-eight lists. But, it's not 78 hours. The time total is only four and half hours. You can learn step by step without going in mixed-up levels. It's easy step to start impoving your English writing. Your writing will be improved greatly because you understand perfectly English. It's important is you understand what it mean, not the rules. You will not have to memorize words frequently and confuse easily. Understanding words, and learning words better that is the important one. That is all. (smiles)

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KarissaMann05

Okayyy... I'm done! see my post that I currently edit it... i'm pretty tired lol. No sleepness for me. So I should get going now. G'nite, AD'ers. ^_^

Hey, Kittell. If you read this post, you are more welcome to edit the transcription!

CJB

Thanks so much Karissa!

So from what I understand, ASLE is about tying English grammar to the visual-spatial grammar of ASL instead of using the more linear grammar of PSE and SEE. Am I on the right track?

Bottesini

You may need to say that differently.

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jillio

Yep, right track. It moderates the misunderstandings that occur when one tries to make a visual spatial language perform in a linear manner.

CJB

I see. So for example rather than signing THE BALL IS ROLLING, you could use ASL classifiers to indicate the ball rolling, which would would in turn help Deaf students tie the IS and -ING to the movement embedded in the English sentence? Am I still on the right track? Just trying to make sure I get it.

jillio

You're getting it!

Sosie

I got a James Kittell video from my girlfriend via FB two days ago. She said that James is working to popularize the already familiar notion that effective teaching of English to Deaf kids requires the use of ASL. While what he says isn't new, it is always great to see one more person line up and demand effective methods of English instruction for Deaf children-adults.
I agreed.

I would like to meet James for coffee and chat. I always enjoy his vlogs.

KarissaMann05

Hi CJB.

Like Jill said, yes, you are right. I'm sorry that I made not clear but I'm glad that you understood my transcription clearly. Lol, I didn't realize my transcription is a bit of messed up. Sorry about that... >.<;;

jillio

Right...this isn't a new idea at all, but rather the resurrection of an idea that was proven successful in the past. I'm with you Sosie. This falls right into the classification of Bi-Bi education, and we can use all the advocates we can get. Good for James for getting the message out there.

shel90

And less wasted time spent on trying to get the children understand the meanings of MCEs.

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jillio

No doubt!

shel90

I am going to start mini-lessons on this next week to my writing class.

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jillio

Ohhhh...poor Shel! I wonder where Interpretator has been? I'd like to hear how her ESL writing classes are going for the deaf students.

shel90

Yea, that would be great if she came here and shared any teaching approaches or techniques she has been using with her class. The difference might be that her students r adults so they r more likely be mature and ready to take responsibility for learning, while I have 9 year olds whose first priority is all about peers and socializing with them.

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jillio

That is true. You would probably have to adapt some of her techniques to use with a younger group. You just made me realize that we hadn't heard from her in a while. I really admired the attitude she had toward deaf ed. She was a well informed lady.

DURAY

You can email James Kittell at FB.
I knew him at Gallaudet.
Which signs do you mean? Got the "timed" picture from the videos? We can figure it out.

ASLGAL

At first I got that old, ARGH!, feeling that the thread was just going to be another coded language thing.

Am I right after looking and reading the transcript that the author is attempting to use this as an assistive for the D/deaf and not as a replacement for anything?

I still do not fully understand what you do in the classroom, Shel, implimenting BIBI.
Do you have time to go into it a little?

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shel90

ASLgal, I have explained numerous times what I do in the classroom with the BiBi approach and people still misunderstand or unable to get the concept so my advice is to observe a BiBi deaf program. That's the best way for people to really understand.

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ASLGAL

I think you are right. That may be the only way to fully understand how you and other teachers impliment it.
Sadly, I do not get into the schools as much as I once did.

But since you did not say 'no' I guess I understand the authors philosophy and what he is hoping to accomplish.

I have been out of the loop for a few months.
Finally getting back in to AD, yea!

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DURAY

I watched the video again. so the written language of ASLE is English?

shel90

ASLE is not a language..it is an approach in which ASL is used to teach English. The only languages being used are ASL and English.

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souggy

If you notice...he fingerspell the word after showing the signs. Like he would sign "rolling" in ASL, then all the sudden he would fingerspell R-O-L-L-I-N-G.

Not a new concept... I was taught that way with English and French teachers when I was growing up before hitting middle school.

Not to be confused with MCEs.

Like example in French, you would sign "THANK" in ASL, then fingerspell M-E-R-C-I afterward.

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jillio

Right. The languages are still kept separate. Unlike the MCEs which attempt to use 2 languages merged together, and SimCom, which attempts to use 2 different languages in 2 different modes at the same time. Talk about confusing for a kid!

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Why you're feel embarrass??

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KarissaMann05

no, she was not embarrassed. She was just half-kidding