How the Common People Understand the Sign Language of the Deaf Student in SLB B Bina Asih Bondowoso

Tri Wulandari

 

ABSTRACT

 

Sign language is used to communicate between the teacher and deaf students in a classroom discourse. The goal of this study is to know how the common people understand the sign language of the deaf students in SLB B Bina Asih Bondowoso. This research will view this term from the psycholinguistic point of view which focuses on sign language as visual communication by observing the common people who guess the signs as visual signals in every word. It begins by giving questionnaire to the students of English Department by watching videos of one of the student in SLB-B Bina Asih Bondowoso. The results suggest that visual ability is needed for the common people, such as imagery, memory for simultaneously presented shapes, visual attention, visual closure, face recognition and motion detection in peripheral vision.

 

Key words: sign language, visual signal, psycholinguistics