Common European Framework of Reference for Sign Languages
Category Project
Ausgangslage und Ziele
The aim of this project is to define suitable descriptors for communication skills involved in the productive and receptive use of DSGS »textual skills”.
Textual skills can also be described for non-written languages – that is the point of departure for this three-year project to devise a Common European Framework of Reference for Sign Languages (CEFR-SL). The qualitative characteristics constituting »textuality” derive not from the written medium as such, but from the way in which a thought is expressed and processed.
However, languages without a written system require a new approach to defining the criteria for textual »reading” and »writing” skills. The deaf make use of digital media, notably videos, to overcome the ephemeral nature of face-to-face communication and to capture and pass on a presentation, a story, a declaration, a work of art, etc. These videos feature the same characteristics as those applied to written texts and text types, and they lend themselves to precise study. We recognise them, for example, in terms of quality of message, structured content, coherence, targeting of recipient, flow, but also formal linguistic technicalities.
Project Management
Facts
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Duration04.201508.2018
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Project number
4_15.1
Project Team
- Dawei Ni
- Petrea Bürgin
- Ulrika Lukasczyk
Cooperations
Financial support
Publications
- Sign Language training for sustainable development and implementation in accordance with CEFR in Switzerland[Konferenzabstract].What can Sign Language and Deaf research add to science, art and society?,Budapest, Ungarn.
- (2016).A dialogue on the multiple facets of sustainability.In G. A. M. De Clerck, & P. V. Paul (Hrsg.),Sign language, sustainable development, and equal opportunities. Envisioning the future for deaf students(S. 13–31).Gallaudet University Press.
- (2016).Enabling pedagogy and andragogy for 21st-century sign language users and learners.In G. A. M. De Clerck, & P. V. Paul (Hrsg.),Sign language, sustainable development, and equal opportunities. Envisioning the future for deaf students(S. 91–104).Gallaudet University Press.