Seminar: 4 hours per week
Class activities may include: lecture and language lab, demonstration/modelling, dialogue and small group conversational practice, course readings/videos, among others.
The content includes sentence structures, vocabulary and narrative techniques needed for:
- Locating things around the house or other location
- Complaining, making suggestions and requests
- Exchanging personal information and life events
- ASL adjectives for size, shape, colour, etc
- Verb inflections for temporal aspect
- Creating traditional ASL handshape stories
- Expansion of knowledge of ASL numbering systems
Introduction to key themes in Deaf education:
- Impact of the 1880 Milan Congress
- Influence of Alexander Graham Bell
- Ongoing lack of opportunities for Deaf people to be educated in sign language
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
- Demonstrate intermediate conversational ASL skill to do the following:
- Describe and identify objects/subjects in the immediate surroundings or at another location
- Use a variety of ASL adjectives including those for size, shape and distance
- Engage in dialogue about complaints, suggestions and requests
- Narrate briefly about life events (personal or general events)
- Use ASL cardinal numbers from 1 to 1,000
- Use ASL number forms to discuss clock time
- Demonstrate the use of appropriate register in ASL when exchanging personal information and discussing life events
- Demonstrate appropriate use of Deaf cultural norms of directness
- Perform a simple 1-10 or A-Z handshape story/poem
- Explain the basic struggle for Deaf people’s educational rights
This course will conform to the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½Evaluation Policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation may include a combination of:
- Quizzes to evaluate factual knowledge of ASL & Deaf culture
- Quizzes to evaluate receptive ASL skills
- Demonstration of expressive ASL skills
- Assigned dialogues and interaction
- Attendance and participation
Sample grade breakdown for this course might be as follows:
Video assignment 1: 20%
Video assignment 2: 20%
Mid-term exam 1: 20%
Mid-term exam 2: 20%
Final exam: 20%
Total: 100%
No single assignment will be worth more than 20%.
The instructor might choose an ASL textbook such as:
Smith, Cheri. (2008). Signing Naturally 2. Student Workbook. San Diego, CA: DawnSignPress.
MODL 1262 or Assessment
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