British Sign Language Beginners Step 1 The University of Edinburgh

Overview

Through the British Sign Language Beginners Step 1 from The University of Edinburgh you will learn to introduce yourself, ask and answer basic questions about family, hobbies and housing.

You will develop receptive and productive signing skills through a variety of learning activities in class and at home. Class based activities include small-group role-plays, responding to short BSL video clips, watching signed dialogues, and engaging in interactive signing exercises. Language learning requires regular practice, and you will consolidate your skills at home, with signing exercises.

Please note, you will need to buy a textbook to support your learning on this course. You will find details of this textbook in the ‘What you’ll learn’ section of the course overview. Please do not purchase any materials until your course is confirmed to run. You will require access to a device with an internet connection.

If you have fully engaged with all the learning activities and have attended regularly, by the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Introduce themselves, ask and answer simple questions about family, hobbies and housing
• Follow signing which is very slow and carefully articulated
• Interact in a simple way with communication dependent on repetition and slow pace
• Show limited control of a few simple grammatical structures and sentence patterns in a basic repertoire