American Sign Language I Course Description
Mrs. Shearer
[email protected]
I Major Areas of Study
A. Vocabulary
B. Fingerspelling
C. Number Systems
D. Classifiers
E. Pronouns
F. Possession
G. Non-Manuals
H. Sentence Structure
I. ASL Grammar
J. Deaf Culture
II Major Learner Outcomes
A. Students will demonstrate appropriate expressive and receptive use of targeted ASL vocabulary.
1. Handshape
2. Palm Orientation
3. Non-Manuals
4. Location
5. Movement
B. Students will demonstrate appropriate receptive and expressive use of the manual alphabet.
1. Production
2. Comprehension
3. Fluency
4. Usage
C. Students will demonstrate appropriate expressive and receptive use of specific number systems used in ASL.
1. Counting
2. Ordinal
3. Money
4. Age
5. Time
D. Students will demonstrate appropriate expressive and receptive use of targeted classifiers in ASL.
1. Object Classifiers
2. Body Classifiers
3. Predicate Classifiers
4. Descriptive Classifiers
E. Students will demonstrate appropriate expressive and receptive use of specific grammatical features of ASL.
1. Interrogatives
2. Negation
3. Possessives
4. Rhetoricals
5. Tense Indicators
6. Affirmatives
7. Plurals
8. Spatial Relationship
9. Topicalization
10. Directionals
F. Students will demonstrate appropriate non-manual conversational strategies.
1. Confirming
2. Correcting
3. Eye Gaze
4. Facial Movements
G. Students will develop appropriate awareness of the sentence structure of ASL.
1. General to Specific
2. Concrete to Abstract
3. Chronological Order
4. Topic/Comment
H. Students will develop an awareness of the history and culture of Deaf people in America.
1. Linguistic
2. Social
3. Educational
4. Political
III Procedures
A. Demonstrations
B. Audio-Visual Materials
C. Small group interaction
D. Selected readings
E. Assignments/projects
F. Lecture
IV Evaluations
A. Receptive Skills
B. Expressive Skills
C. Cultural/Linguistic Knowledge
D. Class Participation
Mrs. Shearer
[email protected]
I Major Areas of Study
A. Vocabulary
B. Fingerspelling
C. Number Systems
D. Classifiers
E. Pronouns
F. Possession
G. Non-Manuals
H. Sentence Structure
I. ASL Grammar
J. Deaf Culture
II Major Learner Outcomes
A. Students will demonstrate appropriate expressive and receptive use of targeted ASL vocabulary.
1. Handshape
2. Palm Orientation
3. Non-Manuals
4. Location
5. Movement
B. Students will demonstrate appropriate receptive and expressive use of the manual alphabet.
1. Production
2. Comprehension
3. Fluency
4. Usage
C. Students will demonstrate appropriate expressive and receptive use of specific number systems used in ASL.
1. Counting
2. Ordinal
3. Money
4. Age
5. Time
D. Students will demonstrate appropriate expressive and receptive use of targeted classifiers in ASL.
1. Object Classifiers
2. Body Classifiers
3. Predicate Classifiers
4. Descriptive Classifiers
E. Students will demonstrate appropriate expressive and receptive use of specific grammatical features of ASL.
1. Interrogatives
2. Negation
3. Possessives
4. Rhetoricals
5. Tense Indicators
6. Affirmatives
7. Plurals
8. Spatial Relationship
9. Topicalization
10. Directionals
F. Students will demonstrate appropriate non-manual conversational strategies.
1. Confirming
2. Correcting
3. Eye Gaze
4. Facial Movements
G. Students will develop appropriate awareness of the sentence structure of ASL.
1. General to Specific
2. Concrete to Abstract
3. Chronological Order
4. Topic/Comment
H. Students will develop an awareness of the history and culture of Deaf people in America.
1. Linguistic
2. Social
3. Educational
4. Political
III Procedures
A. Demonstrations
B. Audio-Visual Materials
C. Small group interaction
D. Selected readings
E. Assignments/projects
F. Lecture
IV Evaluations
A. Receptive Skills
B. Expressive Skills
C. Cultural/Linguistic Knowledge
D. Class Participation