Manos a la Hoja: A Workshop on Writing between Deaf and Hearing Young People

Abstract

In this paper we are talking about the workshop “Manos a la hoja”. A group of university degree in Hispanic Literature at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos work with a group deaf student’s users Mexican Sign Language (lsm) at conalep Morelos’s students. Aimed at, first, between users of different languages and different cultures in a single educational space. And, on the other, provide a response from the university, the demand for an educational proposal to promote competition in written by the deaf students enrolled in regular school language. The definition of the activities of the workshop was based on the reflection of both groups (deaf and hearing) of the grammatical structure of sign languages and spoken languages, and the purposes of the written language in school; and contact between people that use different languages and other cultures.