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                      | Catalog 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Chemeketa Community College, Salem OR (curriculum@chemeketa.edu) 
 
 |  ASL 113 American Sign Language 3Lecture Hours: 4
 Credits: 4
 
 Continues development of expressive and receptive skills learned in ASL 111  and ASL 112 . Expands vocabulary and introduces forms of ASL narrative and dialogue. Advances study in complex grammatical structures. Describes people and things in clothing, including sentence translations and appropriate behaviors in greetings and leaving-takings. Makes requests and asks for advice, using agreement verbs and conjunction. Describes places in the neighborhood and suggests a place to eat by giving directions. Expands signing numbers and fingerspelling with appropriate productions. Rehearses different narrative elements and presents a coherent story. Uses total immersion of ASL for classroom interaction and instruction. Course has an online component that requires students to use internet for coursework and workbook assignments.
 
 Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115  (or higher), or completion of WR 090  (or higher); and completion of ASL 112  within the past year; and internet skills; or consent of instructor. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.)
 Student Learning Outcomes:
 
 
	Identify person in room by body position, appearance, and clothing. Describe an item that is lost and tell what kind of material it is made of. Increase fluency in producing numbers 1-100, years, and phone and clock numbers. Translate yes/no questions, negations, spatial verbs, sentences with “have,”  and tag questions.Exhibit descriptions of neighborhood and type of business, directions to places, and restaurant. Discuss by making requests, agreeing with conditions, and asking for advice. Display relay information, using “with” verb modification. Narrate the story, including the descriptions of three changes to a clothing item and one’s own neighborhood. Produce correct form and movement for fingerspelling with clothing-related words and months.Demonstrate Deaf Culture knowledge: Greetings and leave-takings, minimizing interruptions, name signs, and keeping others informed.  
 Content Outline
 
 
	GrammarTopicalization
	
		Yes/No questionsMaking requestsGiving adviceAgreeing with conditionsSigner’s perspectiveReference pointsNon-manual signals for distanceBCLs, BPCLs, ICLs, LCLs, ECLs, and DCLs
		
			Describe a personDescribe an itemDescribe a horizontal map orientationDescribe parts of the room (restaurants)Conditional ClausesSemantics
		
			Sentences with “Have”Negative statementsRole Shift
		
			Describe awkward conversationsDescribe person doing something, which they are not supposed to doWord Order
		
			Ask/tell what it is made ofExplain problem using “with” conjunctionsDescribe itemNegation and tag questionsNumbers
		
			1-100Number types
			
				ClockPhone numbersYearsFingerspelling Patterns
		
			Clothing-related wordsMonthsWhen ClausesRhetorical QuestionsAgreement Verb
		
			GoDriveTake fromDrop offPick upCarryTellPhoneSendMail informPayBawl outBotherTeaseBorrow fromIgnoreNarrate the Story, Including Descriptions
	
		Three changes to a clothing item and classifiersGreet Others and Say GoodbyesApply Culturally Appropriate Principles of NamingInterrupt Politely to Explain
	
	Inform Reasons for Absences and Tardiness to Class or Event 
 
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