ASL 208 - ASL for Classroom Settings at Reynolds Community College
Course Description
Effective: 2012-08-01
Provides extensive instruction of vocabulary and concepts used in content areas covered in elementary and high school classrooms. Focuses on comprehension and production of content-related information in American Sign Language with emphasis on sign production clarity and conceptual accuracy.
Lecture Hours: 3, Total Contact Hours: 3
3 credits
General Course Purpose
To provide a specialized curriculum through which the student can learn and incorporate the use of vocabulary and concepts for academic content areas such as Science, Social Studies, Language, and Math. This course will increase the expressive and receptive skills of the student working with or interpreting for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in academic settings.
Course Objectives
- Demonstrate accurate receptive and expressive skills regarding vocabulary and concepts across content areas.
- Use role shift techniques depending on the content.
- Demonstrate strategies for using overhead or blackboard content when signing certain content area information.
- Analyze the content and determine the classifiers, body shifts and expressions conceptually accurate for each content area.
- Create and sign a 5-minute long presentation for each content area, reviewing and assimilating use of classifiers, backboard/overhead materials, body expressions and role shifts.
Major Topics to be Included
- Rules for role shifting, comparisons, and other spatial concepts.
- Classifiers used for background settings and actions.
- Use and manipulation of pauses, eye gazes and body movements.
- Viewing Deaf teachers working with various content areas.
- Vocabulary and concepts key in each content area.