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(Disclaimer: Though I didn't find anything when I searched, I'd be pretty surprised if this isn't already baked somewhere.)
The idea itself is pretty self-explanatory: use nightclubs as a setting for teaching sign language. So, on to the benefits:
* Immersion - if the music's loud enough, you
can't just talk to the other students in your first language. So you have to try signing right from the start.
* Communicative language teaching (CLT) approach - you learn through doing, and you can use what you learned later that very same night.
* Convenience - just turn up to the club a little earlier than you normally do, learn for an hour or so, then dance the rest of the night away.
* Fun - relaxed learning environment, you're all dressed for the dancefloor, and you can drink while you learn.
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If the music's loud enough, you can't hear the instructor telling what {this sign} means. |
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That doesn't necessarily matter: teaching a new language without translating into students' L1, by relying on establishing meaning through use of context, realia (objects), gestures etc. can be done very successfully and is a widely-used approach. |
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When I was teaching English in China, for example, our school had an English-only approach even for beginner's classes. Similarly when I learned beginner's Czech in Prague, the class was conducted purely in Czech. |
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The only difference in this case is that using gestures for the words themselves could sometimes interfere with using gestures to establish the meaning of those words. |
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It might work if its purpose was to obtain a drink for yourself when it's so loud that no one can hear anything. |
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I know a cat named Way-Out Willie,
Got a cool little chick named Rocking Millie.
He can walk and stroll and Susie Q
And do that crazy hand jive, too. |
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sorry, just reminded me... |
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they should teach other stuff in nightclubs e.g. photoshop, foreign languages, juggling... |
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I used to do my math homework around dawn, before school, in a 24 hour bar, interrupted by the occasional posse of giggling night crawlers who ended their night there. It was grand. |
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I once ventured into a bar in Geneva heralded by a sign labelled "Pussycat Club" - if only someone had translated the language of that particular (and from my naive understanding, innocuous) nightclub's sign, a great deal of embarrassment could have been avoided. |
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