ASL Level 2
American Sign Language II is offered as ENGLISH 102 and EDU T&L 102.
This course continues to develop expressive (speaking) and comprehension (listening) skills at an informal conversational level. Instruction will occur primarily in ASL. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to have more complex conversations about themselves and others and their activities. Students will also study the linguistic repertoire of the Deaf community in America and they will come to understand some of the key issues confronting deaf individuals and the Deaf community, as documented in film and video.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Students will be able to use classifiers for body parts and clothing.
- Students will be able to recite numbers 51-100.
- Students will be able to appropriately use number forms for money, age and time.
- Students will be able to demonstrate correct use of perspective (signer's perspective and real world orientation).
- Students will be able to use the dominant hand for spatial referencing.
- Students will be able to interrupt and handle interruption in culturally appropriate ways.
- Students will be able to provide culturally appropriate back-channel feedback (conversational interaction language).
- Students will be able to open and close conversations in culturally appropriate ways.
- Students will be able to discuss the linguistic repertoire of the Deaf community in America.
- Students will be able to understand and discuss some of the key issues confronting the Deaf community and individuals as documented in film and video.
