The Teaching Materials for the Tourism Focused Vocational Sign Language Learning Program at A1&A2 Level
Audiovisual environments are of great importance for the permanence of learning. The more sensory organs are activated during teaching, the more effective learning is. Educational technologies shorten the duration of education, keep the interest alive, embody abstract concepts, provide realistic experiences and create more willingness to learn [Z.N.Kaya, 2002]. When it comes to educational technology, computers and online education materials take the first place. In the online teaching method, students are offered the opportunity to learn according to their abilities and speeds with individualized educational materials. Thus, students can learn according to their individual learning speed in specially organized online learning environments [E.Çiftçi, 2009].
The teaching materials for the Tourism Focused Vocational Sign Language Learning Program at A1 level, which we will prepare in the O2 idea output, will be prepared within the scope of this idea. Teaching materials project partner is the sign languagesof four different countries; It will be prepared in Turkish Sign Language (TID), British Sign Language (BSL), German Sign Language (GSL) and Portuguese Sign Language (PSL). The training materials we will prepare will have the following effects on tourism guides with limited time and budgets for learning activities:
• To reach educational materials for the curriculum to be prepared at A1 level,
• Individualization and self-progress,
• Cascading education and active learning,
• Ability to do more than one work at the same time
• Learning with fun,
• Intensifying the attention of the learner,
• Accessing a lot of information in less time,
• Save time with fast and easy learning,
• Providing the learner with a sense of freedom and empowerment,
• Providing the learner with the opportunity to work at his own pace and schedule,
• Providing equal opportunities in the training process,
• Ensuring that information is not lost, stored and used later,
It is expected that tourist guides who learn vocational sign language with the curriculum we will prepare and online teaching materials for this program will be ready for the real communication and interaction situations they will enter with their hearing-impaired customers during their duties. This means that tourist guides develop their skills of understanding the signs, gestures and mimics they see and professionally expressing themselves in sign language. The online teaching materials we will prepare will be exactly to meet this need. Tourist guides who have completed the curriculum will be able to respond to customers' questions, requests and complaints, express opinions on a subject, provide information, and make a presentation about a service or historical work. Direct Instruction Method will be used while preparing teaching materials. This method emerged in response to the strict prescriptive Grammar-Translation Method based on cognitive basis and is the method used mostly in sign language education. Similarly, vocational teaching materials are not available in our country and in Europe and will be prepared for the first time within the scope of our project.
The teaching materials for the Tourism Focused Vocational Sign Language Learning Program at A1 level, which we will prepare in the O2 idea output, will be prepared within the scope of this idea. Teaching materials project partner is the sign languagesof four different countries; It will be prepared in Turkish Sign Language (TID), British Sign Language (BSL), German Sign Language (GSL) and Portuguese Sign Language (PSL). The training materials we will prepare will have the following effects on tourism guides with limited time and budgets for learning activities:
• To reach educational materials for the curriculum to be prepared at A1 level,
• Individualization and self-progress,
• Cascading education and active learning,
• Ability to do more than one work at the same time
• Learning with fun,
• Intensifying the attention of the learner,
• Accessing a lot of information in less time,
• Save time with fast and easy learning,
• Providing the learner with a sense of freedom and empowerment,
• Providing the learner with the opportunity to work at his own pace and schedule,
• Providing equal opportunities in the training process,
• Ensuring that information is not lost, stored and used later,
It is expected that tourist guides who learn vocational sign language with the curriculum we will prepare and online teaching materials for this program will be ready for the real communication and interaction situations they will enter with their hearing-impaired customers during their duties. This means that tourist guides develop their skills of understanding the signs, gestures and mimics they see and professionally expressing themselves in sign language. The online teaching materials we will prepare will be exactly to meet this need. Tourist guides who have completed the curriculum will be able to respond to customers' questions, requests and complaints, express opinions on a subject, provide information, and make a presentation about a service or historical work. Direct Instruction Method will be used while preparing teaching materials. This method emerged in response to the strict prescriptive Grammar-Translation Method based on cognitive basis and is the method used mostly in sign language education. Similarly, vocational teaching materials are not available in our country and in Europe and will be prepared for the first time within the scope of our project.
