Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Teaching non-traditional languages

We are considering offering American Sign Language as a full "foreign"
language course offering. We already offer Swedish in addition to the
more traditional French and Spanish. Do other schools do this? How is
ASL treated by colleges as far as language credit goes? Some of our
dyslexic students are very interested in this as ASL has no written
form. As it is now most of them take Swedish as it is More closely
related to English in grammar, usage and written form than is French
or Spanish.

So what non-tractional languages are offered out there and what is
your experience in offering them?

Greg

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