@avbria I believe what you say and it seems like they are, indeed, healthy, smart and well-adjusted children. But I did watch until the end and I'm simply observing that they didn't demonstrate any knowledge of English in the video since they weren't reading, writing or speaking. So while it's a neat video about Deaf kids signing, it doesn't show anything about bilingualism.
@Tyiranie Use of spoken English in a group of signers is not appropriate and rude considering that there would be no access for them. Use of written English in that scene is not needed since they all understand each other using ASL so that is why it doesn't focus on the use of English. Bilingual kids shown in the video are in social not academic setting.
@Tyiranie They do use spoken English/written English in a specific type of environment but again that is not the purpose of my vlog. This is a summertime theme where they all communicate naturally with each other. Research shows that there's a relationship of the fluency in ASL to the mastery of English. (cont'd)
@Tyiranie (last part) If you have been following my past vlogs, my son had achieved high scores when taking the Woodcock-Johnson test while he was in middle school. He will graduate at the age 16 by the way. I have shown several examples of how bilingual kids function in my previous videos and this is a part of the whole picture :-)
@Tyiranie If you had read in the end, three of them (two of them are my kids) moved up one grade since they excel in reading and writing. They use ASL as their primary means of language to communicate but are bilingual when they either converse in spoken and written forms.
@avbria I believe what you say and it seems like they are, indeed, healthy, smart and well-adjusted children. But I did watch until the end and I'm simply observing that they didn't demonstrate any knowledge of English in the video since they weren't reading, writing or speaking. So while it's a neat video about Deaf kids signing, it doesn't show anything about bilingualism.
Tyiranie 1 year ago
@Tyiranie This is just a fun vlog not necessarily academic time. They are bilingual kids, that is that.
avbria 1 year ago
@Tyiranie Use of spoken English in a group of signers is not appropriate and rude considering that there would be no access for them. Use of written English in that scene is not needed since they all understand each other using ASL so that is why it doesn't focus on the use of English. Bilingual kids shown in the video are in social not academic setting.
avbria 1 year ago
@Tyiranie They do use spoken English/written English in a specific type of environment but again that is not the purpose of my vlog. This is a summertime theme where they all communicate naturally with each other. Research shows that there's a relationship of the fluency in ASL to the mastery of English. (cont'd)
avbria 1 year ago
@Tyiranie (last part) If you have been following my past vlogs, my son had achieved high scores when taking the Woodcock-Johnson test while he was in middle school. He will graduate at the age 16 by the way. I have shown several examples of how bilingual kids function in my previous videos and this is a part of the whole picture :-)
avbria 1 year ago
I only saw one language used by the children in this video: ASL. This video gives no evidence that they're actually bilingual.
Tyiranie 1 year ago
@Tyiranie If you had read in the end, three of them (two of them are my kids) moved up one grade since they excel in reading and writing. They use ASL as their primary means of language to communicate but are bilingual when they either converse in spoken and written forms.
avbria 1 year ago