Deaf language awareness Erasmus Project

Project Title

Deaf language awareness

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

The Deaf Language Awareness project aims to increase the language awareness of deaf people.

Language awareness is one of the factors influencing the learning of languages and foreign languages. The same is ​​among deaf adults. Good knowledge of the written language supports the inclusion of deaf citizens in ​​work, cultural services, and education.

As part of the project, a partnership of 4 organizations from Poland, Austria, Portugal, and Italy developed 18 e-courses in 4 speech/sign language courses, a total of 72 language courses. Topics of e-courses are related to language knowledge and language processes:

1. What is a language?
2. Why do we need a language?
3. Language and speech
4. What is learning?
5. Learning strategies
6. What is language acquisition?
7. What is bilingualism?
8. What does the brain have to do with language?
9. What are bilingualism, multilingualism, and multilingualism from a social perspective?
10. Language evolution
11. Language families
12. Figurative language
13. Language translation/interpretation
14. How do languages ​​describe objects?
15. How do languages ​​describe activities and states?
16. How do languages ​​describe features?
17. What are function words in languages?
18. What is grammar?

Deaf specialists have worked in the e-course production process both as interpreters and as persons performing the tests.

All courses are available free of charge, without registration, on the project website: www.deaflanguage.eu

For all those who would like to implement e-courses in their country, partners share e-courses source files from the Articulate Story 3 program and the original course content in English.

In the second part of 2021, multiplier events took place in each partner’s country. Over 300 participants attended these events (live and online): deaf adults, deaf teachers, hearing teachers of the deaf, sign language interpreters, researchers, and specialists of sign language development.

Project Website

http://deaflanguage.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 264439,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Polski Zwiazek Gluchych Oddzial Lodzki & Country: PL

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITAET KLAGENFURT
• UNIVERSITA CA’ FOSCARI VENEZIA
• UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO