Written answers

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Department of Education and Skills

School Curriculum

Photo of Terence FlanaganTerence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Renua Ireland)
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542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding sign language; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45233/15]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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A new course in Irish Sign Language (ISL) has been prepared by the Post-Primary Languages Initiative (PPLI), a project of my Department. This 100 hour course is based on the Generic Short Course in Modern Languages, which was in turn developed by the PPLI using the new Framework for Junior Cycle and the Junior Cycle Short Courses Draft Handbook 'Developing Short Courses in Junior Cycle'.

The course provides the 'learning statements' and key skills which all short courses are based upon. In this course, the emphasis is on developing communication skills in ISL at level A1 (Council of Europe scale called CEFR).

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