A pilot project designed for the integrated or non-integrated classroom, speech therapy setting, and family at home, this multi-media DVD + book series offers deaf and hearing children “of all ages” a lively interactive tool for discovering and comparing two very different languages, Italian Sign Language and Italian. “Raccontami un dizionario”(Tell Me A Dictionary) is rich in vocabulary presented through stories and sentences that project both languages as living languages, thanks also to a lively 8-minute animated cartoon, signed and spoken narration, Italian with subtitles, vocabulary building games and a glossary that takes you back to the vocabulary items in the DVD. The illustrations and story in the accompanying book derive from the DVD: both animated and printed versions tell the story even without the support of language, permitting access even to young children just beginning to read. The animated story facilitates the understanding of written Italian, especially verbs which, through animation, offer a dynamism that is limited by two dimensional book illustrations. The book reinforces the written Italian and children can experiment narrating the story to their friends and engage in dramatization with classmates. Published by LisMedia & CO, it is easily adapted to other spoken and signed languages.
@inproceedings{insolera:06019:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Insolera, Emilio and Militano, Maria Giuseppina and Radutzky, Elena and Rossini, Alessandra},
title = {Pilot Learning Strategies in Step with New Technologies: {LIS} and {Italian} in a Bilingual Multimedia Context `Tell Me a Dictionary'},
pages = {92--95},
editor = {Vettori, Chiara},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2006} 2nd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Lexicographic Matters and Didactic Scenarios},
maintitle = {5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2006)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Genoa, Italy},
day = {28},
month = may,
year = {2006},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/06019.pdf}
}