👄ASL Level 2, Activity 4-Lip Reading (Face-to-Face)
Description:
In this activity, students will practice lip reading. Students will have the opportunity to understand why it is difficult to read lips, but also how deaf individuals use lipreading.
Products: Deaf culture, oralism, lip reading
Practices: Translating sentences, and decoding messages via lip reading
Perspectives: What challenges in conversation do Deaf people face in a hearing world?
Standards
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.
- Standard 3.2 Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through American Sign Language and 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 1.2: 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.
- CONN 2.3: Compare and contrast cultural similarities and differences in authentic materials.
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can understand basic sentences that are signed to me
- I can recognize why lipreading is difficult for deaf individuals
- I can identify distinctive viewpoints of Deaf Culture
Materials Needed
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Warm-up
Materials Needed for Warm-up
- Start by going over the 5 vocab words.
- “START REVIEW WORD LIST.”
- Ask students to pull up the Kahoot app (preferably on their phone) and look at the shared screen!
- “GO-TO WEBSITE CALLED KAHOOT, LOOK SHARED SCREEN.”
- The Kahoot will have different videos of sentences signed-Select the best answer!
- “KAHOOT HAVE DIFFERENT VIDEO WITH SENTENCES SIGNED, BEST ANSWER CHOOSE.”
- Take breaks for questions and further explanation
- “TAKE TIME FOR QUESTIONS.”
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
- 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.
- “ALL DEAF INDIVIDUALS KNOW HOW READ LIPS, NOT DIFFICULT FOR THEM.”
- Pair each of the students up (if an odd number of students, small groups work just fine)
- “HAVE STUDENTS PARTNER.”
- Each pair/group will receive a whiteboard, marker, and eraser
- “ALL PAIRS RECEIVE WHAT, LIST: WHITE BOARD, MARKER, ERASER.”
- 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.
- “SENTENCE CARD ONE STUDENT IN PAIR RECEIVE WILL. MOUTH SENTENCE VOICE NONE, STUDENT WILL.”
- REMEMBER: STUDENTS SHOULD NOT SPEAK, THEY SHOULD JUST MOUTH THE SENTENCE
- “REMEMBER STUDENTS VOICE NONE, MOUTH ONLY.”
- The other student(s) will read their lips and write down what they think the other student is mouthing.
- “STUDENTS WITH CARD NONE, READ AND WRITE WORD THEY THINK THEY WILL.”
- Once they have made their guess, the partner can reveal what the card actually said.
- “STUDENTS HAVE GUESS, PARTNER SHOW CARD THEY WILL.”
- They then will switch roles!
- “SWITCH.”
Discuss the difficulty deaf people go through to read lips especially considering how fast hearing people speak and how hard it must be to be deaf in a hearing world.
Wrap-up
- What have you learned about lip reading?
- “ABOUT LIP READING YOU LEARN WHAT?”
- Was it easy or hard for you to guess what your partner was saying?
- “GUESS YOUR PARTNERS SENTENCE EASY/HARD WHICH?”
- Would it be frustrating to be expected to learn to lipread if you were deaf?
- “EXPECT TO KNOW LIPREADING IF DEAF FRUSTRATING FOR YOU? YES/NO?”
- What content are we struggling with in this class?
- “TOPICS STRUGGLING WITH IN CLASS WHICH?”
Deaf Culture Notes
It is expected that Deaf people learn to read lips although it is not expected that hearing people learn sign language. This is one of the many reasons the Deaf community is so close, they can really only communicate in their native language to other Deaf people/native signers.
End of Lab:
- Read Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate their confidence
- (Use thumbs up/ thumbs down or have them rate 1-5 on how they feel after the activity)
- Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can understand basic sentences that are signed to me
- I can recognize why lipreading is difficult for deaf individuals
- I can identify distinctive viewpoints of Deaf Culture
