Wednesday, September 23, 2009
SED 260 is important
I am glad that there is SED 260 course for teachers because it is true that children get frustrated when they cannot be understood or they cannot understand instruction. I know that from experience and feel pity for the children. Trully my first months in the U.S. were frustranting, I had to request people to repeat what they said and verse versa they requested me to repeat because of the accent. I nearly dropped one of my courses because I could understand only 40% of what the teacher said. But as an adult I had many options including request the teacher to do one -on-one teaching whenever it was possible. So, if it frustrates somebody at my age and maturity what more with children. This is a valuable course!
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I can imagine how hard it must be to not be understood. When we have talked I have had to ask you to repeat yourself and I hate having to ask or not getting it the first time but I am just making sure that I fully understand you. And it's the same way with fingerspelling in ASL. I am horrible when people fingerspell to me, they go so fast I have to keep asking them to repeat and repeat.
ReplyDeleteIt was hard before but now I never even remember that I was asked to repeat like during our conversation when I wrote this comment I had forgoten that I had to say 'water' several times. The reason is now I know it is just accent difference and I am getting used to American accent in Kentucky.When you speak of ASL I have the same problem, I can fingerspell faster but I have problems reading fingerspelling, but lets not giveup with practise we will get there.
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