Sign Languages

In this course, students learn about sign languages in this world. The two most prominent sign languages are American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL). Although the two sign languages may look similar to each other but they are slightly different from each other. Take a look at the basic alphabet signs between those two sign languages:

American Sign Language

British Sign Language

Although this topic may be hard to understand because it is something new, but there are some videos which help students to understand the usage of the signs to convey messages using sign languages. Most of the videos been uploaded in the You Tube website use ASL so ASL is more easier to find through the internet.

For example:

(Sources from YouTube)

(Sources from YouTube)

Have fun!

Brain Games

Since this subject deals with the study of the psychological and neurological factors which enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language-there are many games to stimulate our brain in expanding words and formulating new vocabularies. For this blog, we have provided some games which deals with words and help for the brain to exercise and formulate new words.

For example in www.mindgames.com, some word games like "Guess the Word" helps to improve vocabularies and formulating new words. You can try one of these games by clicking those links:

Guess The Word

Word Machine

Letter Scramble

Word Snake

Word Dimensions

Feral Children

One of the topics in this course is called feral children. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child, a feral child can be defined as  a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no experience of human care, loving or social behaviour and crucially of human language.

Some feral children have been confined by people (usually by their own parents) where in some cases, this child abandonment was due to the parents’ rejection of a child’s severe intellectual or physical impairment. Feral children may have experienced severe child abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away. Feral children are sometimes the subjects of folklore and legends, typically portrayed as having been raised by animals.

In this course,students have learned about feral children cases for example like the cases of Genie and Victor and some other unfortunate feral children cases.

Genie-the feral child

To understand this topic clearly, showing videos or documentaries about the feral children will give more clearer picture to students about these unique cases. Here are some of the videos which can help students to understand this topic better:

(Sources from You Tube)

(Sources from You Tube)

(Sources from You Tube)