Seminar: 4 hours per week
Class activities may include lecture and language lab, demonstration/modelling, dialogue and small group conversational practice, course readings and videos among others.
Sentence structures, vocabulary and narrative techniques:
- Role-shifting with matching eye gaze
- Constructed dialogue and constructed action
- Time/tense markers and use of timelines
- Verb modulation for temporal aspect
- Sentences that include a condition and a consequence
Pluralization:
- Noun repetition and/or indexing
- Plural classifiers – general and number-specific
- ASL quantifying vocabulary, e.g., many, much
Expansion of knowledge of ASL’s numbering systems:
- ASL vocabulary for ranking, e.g., top, most, oldest, best
- Ordinal numbers for ranking
- ASL depictions of ratios and fractions
Narrating interesting facts and unfortunate moments:
- Discourse markers for sudden incidents
- Verbs that depict upset plans
- Emotive aspect and emphasis
Explaining a set of game rules:
- Describing the objective
- Describing the game elements
- Discourse markers to show sequencing
Introduction to Deaf sports organizations and events:
- Local, provincial, national, international
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate intermediate-advanced ASL narration skills to do the following:
- Use role-shifting to clearly depict characters in a narrative sequence
- Use appropriate eye gaze to match role-shifting
- Appropriately incorporate the narrative techniques of constructed dialogue and constructed action
- Choose appropriate discourse markers to indicate topic changes
- Use appropriate structure for conditional clauses
- Use a wide variety of classifiers
- Use a variety of pluralization techniques
- Recognise and use ASL ways of depicting rank, including ordinal numbers
- Use sequencing and discourse markers to explain a set of game rules
- Maintain appropriate temporal aspect and use time/tense markers
- Demonstrate the use of appropriate register in ASL when narrating or storytelling
- Demonstrate appropriate conversation strategies and reciprocal signals
- Demonstrate versatility in tone, eg. ability to narrate authoritatively or diplomatically
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
A 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 3. Student Workbook. San Diego, CA: DawnSignPress.
MODL 2162 or Assessment