Dec 05 2007
A BSL update: practise and test feedback
On Monday night we sat in and watched four segments of a video of signed stories. I don’t know how many there are in total, but four was enough for one night. The clips have an audio commentary which we muted the first few times, then we checked with the sound up. One clip was so hard we couldn’t see all the signs even when (a) we knew what was being said (b) we’d watched it through a few times anyway and (c) it was playing at half speed.
It doesn’t make you feel so virtuous for practising if you sucked monumentally when you did!
But the results of the first assessment came through yesterday. I got a “well done” and ticks in all the right columns, so I’m pretty happy. I had an inkling that the ‘actual’ performance in my test was the best I’d done, but it’s hard to be self-critical when you’re also concentrating on not losing your thread and staring blankly at the video recorder.