ASL 112 American Sign Language 2

Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Continues study in American Sign Language (ASL), supported by vocabulary, grammar, and guided conversation. Introduces various sign systems and methods of communication used by deaf, deaf-blind, non-signing deaf, hard-of-hearing and late-deafened individuals. Discusses information about various perspectives of these community members. Presents Deaf Culture and community as well as historical aspects through reading, writing, and short signed or video-recorded conversations/presentations. Course has an online component that requires students to use internet resources for coursework.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher); and completion of ASL 111 within the past year; and internet skills; or consent of instructor. (All prerequisites must be completed with a grade of C or better.).
Student Learning Outcomes:

Clearly finger-spell and understand finger-spelling loan words.
Expressively and receptively demonstrate an increased use of vocabulary/phrases, including palm orientation differences in numbers.
Demonstrate an increased use of classifiers.
Demonstrate/understand relevant distance between two places using classifiers.
Expressively, receptively, and in writing demonstrate knowledge of ASL grammar introduced at this level.
Model and explain in writing Deaf Cultural rules for social interaction introduced at this level.
Request/give directions to typical school resources.
Sustain conversations with a fluent signer accustomed to signing with beginners.
Self-evaluate and self-correct expressive and receptive signing used at this level (in process or on video).
Understand/explain daily routine using a combination of time and activity signs.

Content Outline

Finger-Spelling
- Loan signs
Numbers
- Plural vs. counting
Topics/Vocabulary Groupings
- Demonstrate/understand distance between two places using classifiers
- Demonstrate/understand distance within campus or area
- Activities/sports
- Campus resources (bathroom, coffee machine, water fountain, …)
- College areas (offices, classrooms, halls…)
- Where you live
Tense/Time
- Part of day (morn, noon, afternoon, night, midnight, all-day, all-night)
- Day, week, month, year (connected with past, present, future)
- Daily routine
Sentences
- Understand/give directions
- Simple role shift (narrator and second person)(2)
- Sequence of events
Pronouns
- Personal number incorporation (2)
Classifiers
- CL:Λ
- CL:B
- Hand-shape rule
Grammar
- Noun/verb pairs
- Language acquisition deaf vs. hearing
- Eye gaze/location agreement
- Placement of objects in space
- Listing/sequence
Culture/History
- Leave-taking
- Deaf Culture values
- History of ASL
- Cross cultural communication Deaf and hearing, Deaf and Deaf, and Deaf and deaf
  - Historical perspectives
  - Communication systems
  - Technology, strategies
- Turn-taking
- Clerc and Gallaudet