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                      | Catalog 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Chemeketa Community College, Salem OR (curriculum@chemeketa.edu) 
 
 |  ASL 212 American Sign Language 5Lecture 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:
 
 
	Develop basic role shift from the perspectives of the initiator and the receiver to show movement of an object or liquid classifiers. Describe different types of falls and injuries. Give and elaborate descriptions and share thoughts, reasons, and reactions for telling stories.Produce listing skills and ranking vocabulary and numbers with percentages, factions, and ratios.Demonstrate durative time signs. Discuss facts with generalizations, theories, or conclusions. Translate using appropriate driving, cultural, customs and behavioral rules. Explain rules and share discussion about card and group games.Describe the furniture arrangement in a room and tell locations of objects. Narrate about weekend activities and disrupted plans using clear transitions and maintain continuity.  Statewide General Education Outcomes 
	Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life; andCritically 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 outcomesReactionInitiator’s view to include use of corresponding gesture, receiver’s response without role shift and receiver’s change in positionBasic role shift sequence using with receiver’s view
		
			Show initiator’s actions touched you without role shiftConditional clause to set up the situation before explaining the ruleUse classifiers and role shift to illustrate and to demonstrate the factGive 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 gameTell location of roomDescribe location of furnitureIdentify a specific location in another roomTell about life events using age and eventTell about an unexpected change in eventsAsk nationality of nameAsk if full-bloodedCorrect, confirm, and elaborateAsk about the weekendRespond and describe activities over the weekendNarrative
	
		Mishap involving an object or liquidDescribe falling or trippingDescribe surfaces or barriersTiming reactions during and after describing fallsIdentify parts of a narrative and discuss what is includedDescribe the perspective of the initiator and the receiver in situations where one person touches another personElaborate on the story by giving descriptions, sharing thoughts, giving reasons, and showing reactions while telling what happenedMake a formal presentationContrastive 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 factOrganize instructions for a group game deciding what rules to explain before and during playVocabulary
	
		Describe injuries using with classifiers and one-person role shiftUse percentages and fractions to distinguish the part from the whole and ratiosCategorize and rank in order information using listing skills and rankingIntroduce the “rule” and “authoritative-diplomatic” to explain rulesGrammar
	
		Topic-comment structureOrdinal numbersReference points marking location of non-present objectsLocative classifiersSemantic classifiersWhen clausesPhrasing for sequencing eventsContrastive structurePossessive formsClassifiers: BPCL DCL, ECL, LCL, and SCLTemporal sequencing: FINISH with when clauseTime signs with durative aspectConversational Strategies
	
		Opening conversations with yes/no questionsConfirming and correcting information 
 
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