LFU:online

Goal: The learner can use the manual alphabet fluently and communicate non-verbally, use gestures and visual cues in everyday situations.

Topics: the manual alphabet; saying hello and goodbye; job and living; describing your personal situation; family; travelling

Linguistic Goals: to learn signs; to acquire the basic vocabulary - to be able to communicate in everyday situations with simple means; to know the basic rules of the Austrian sign language; to learn the linguistic structure of the sign language

The participants are taught the basics of the Austrian sign language through a communicative and playful approach, e.g. with role plays. exercises on the manual alphabet on classifiers and "incorporators" (complex signs that are combined of two or more individual signs). The students will learn the special relevance of gestures and facial expressions and body language in the Austrian sign language through special exercises.

written and oral in sign language

mid term test (oral in sign language/monolog) and final test (oral in sign language/dialogues, visual understanding and theory)

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