Apr 01, 2025  
Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Catalog 2024-2025

ASL 212 American Sign Language 5


Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Continues development of expressive and receptive skills learned in ASL 211 . Expands vocabulary and continues study in forms of ASL narrative and dialogue and complex grammatical structures. Shares stories to develop and maintain relationships in the Deaf community. Develops strategies for explaining rules while playing games and discuss general rules in driving and culture. Describes physical arrangements requiring skills to visualize the room and to use the interplay of both hands to show where objects are located. Creates a coherent narrative that contains an introduction, a series of activities in chronological order and a closing. Uses ASL for classroom interaction and instruction. Course has an online component that requires students to use internet coursework and workbook assignments.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115  (or higher), or completion of WR 090  (or higher); and completion of ASL 211  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:
  1. Develop basic role shift from the perspectives of the initiator and the receiver to show movement of an object or liquid classifiers. 
  2. Describe different types of falls and injuries. 
  3. Give and elaborate descriptions and share thoughts, reasons, and reactions for telling stories.
  4. Produce listing skills and ranking vocabulary and numbers with percentages, factions, and ratios.
  5. Demonstrate durative time signs. 
  6. Discuss facts with generalizations, theories, or conclusions. 
  7. Translate using appropriate driving, cultural, customs and behavioral rules. 
  8. Explain rules and share discussion about card and group games.
  9. Describe the furniture arrangement in a room and tell locations of objects. 
  10. Narrate about weekend activities and disrupted plans using clear transitions and maintain continuity. 

Statewide General Education Outcomes

  1. Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life; and
  2. Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.


Content Outline
  • Sentence Structures
    • Basic role shift sequence
      • Object and outcomes
      • Reaction
      • Initiator’s view to include use of corresponding gesture, receiver’s response without role shift and receiver’s change in position
    • Basic role shift sequence using with receiver’s view
      • Show initiator’s actions touched you without role shift
    • Conditional clause to set up the situation before explaining the rule
    • Use classifiers and role shift to illustrate and to demonstrate the fact
    • Give clear instructions by using space, spatial agreement, locative classifiers, instrument classifiers, and conditional clauses while playing a new game of cards.
    • Use various attentions getting behaviors to manage the group as they practice playing the game
    • Tell location of room
    • Describe location of furniture
    • Identify a specific location in another room
    • Tell about life events using age and event
    • Tell about an unexpected change in events
    • Ask nationality of name
    • Ask if full-blooded
    • Correct, confirm, and elaborate
    • Ask about the weekend
    • Respond and describe activities over the weekend
  • Narrative
    • Mishap involving an object or liquid
    • Describe falling or tripping
    • Describe surfaces or barriers
    • Timing reactions during and after describing falls
    • Identify parts of a narrative and discuss what is included
    • Describe the perspective of the initiator and the receiver in situations where one person touches another person
    • Elaborate on the story by giving descriptions, sharing thoughts, giving reasons, and showing reactions while telling what happened
    • Make a formal presentation
    • Contrastive structure for organizing and discussing the information and ways of concluding the fact with generalizations, theories, or conclusions that can be reasonably formulated based on the information learned from the fact
    • Organize instructions for a group game deciding what rules to explain before and during play
  • Vocabulary
    • Describe injuries using with classifiers and one-person role shift
    • Use percentages and fractions to distinguish the part from the whole and ratios
    • Categorize and rank in order information using listing skills and ranking
    • Introduce the “rule” and “authoritative-diplomatic” to explain rules
  • Grammar
    • Topic-comment structure
    • Ordinal numbers
    • Reference points marking location of non-present objects
    • Locative classifiers
    • Semantic classifiers
    • When clauses
    • Phrasing for sequencing events
    • Contrastive structure
    • Possessive forms
    • Classifiers: BPCL DCL, ECL, LCL, and SCL
    • Temporal sequencing: FINISH with when clause
    • Time signs with durative aspect
  • Conversational Strategies
    • Opening conversations with yes/no questions
    • Confirming and correcting information