Lip Reading, Novice, ASL 102, Lab 03
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Lip Reading
Description:
This activity allows students to practice lip reading. Students will get a glimpse into deaf culture and how important lip reading is for Deaf individuals.
Proficiency Level:
Novice High
Keywords:
Lip reading, ASL, Deaf culture, Kahoot
NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations and correspondence in American Sign Language to provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.2 Students comprehend and interpret live and recorded American Sign Language on a variety of topics.
- Standard 2.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of American Deaf culture.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- COMM 1.1: Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
- COMM 2.1: Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- CLTR 1.1: Analyze the cultural practices/patterns of behavior accepted as the societal norm in the target culture.
- CLTR 1.2: Explain the relationship between cultural practices/behaviors and the perspectives that represent the target culture’s view of the world.
- CLTR 1.3: Function appropriately in diverse contexts within the target culture.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can understand basic sentences
- I can understand why lipreading is difficult
- I can understand more about Deaf culture
Materials Needed:
Whiteboards
Warm-up
1. Begin by introducing the Can-do's for today's activity.
2. The warm up will have gif's of different sentences.
3. Students will use their phones to join the Kahoot game.
4. Each question will have a gif of a sentence. Students will practice understanding the sentences using the Kahoot.
Main Activity
1. Begin with a conversation on the general assumption that Deaf individuals automatically know how to read lips, and that it isn’t difficult at all.
2. Pair each of the students up (if an odd number of students, small groups work just fine)
3. Each pair/group will receive a white board, marker, and eraser
4. One student in each pair/small group will receive a sentence card. This student will mouth the sentence, WITH NO VOICE, to the other student(s) in their pair/small group.
REMEMBER: STUDENTS SHOULD NOT SPEAK, THEY SHOULD JUST MOUTH THE SENTENCE
5. The other student(s) will read their lips and write down what they think the other student is mouthing.
6. Once they have made their guess, the partner can reveal what the card actually said. Students will then switch roles!
Wrap-up
Ask the following question to finish the lab:
What have you learned about lip reading?
Was it easy or hard for you to guess what your partner was saying?
Would it be frustrating to be expected to learn lipreading if you were Deaf?
What content are we struggling with in this class?
End of lab:
- Read can-do statements and have students evaluate their confidence with cards
- Encourage students to be honest in their self evaluation
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can understand basic sentences
- I can understand why lipreading is difficult
- I can understand more about Deaf culture