American Sign Language 1 - Student Learning Outcomes

Teacher: Gary Stein

Room: 219 NGC

Email: gstein@eanesisd.net

At the end of this course, the students will able to:

Vocabulary Development

• recognize and produce vocabulary items in each unit.

• demonstrate comprehensive mastery of targeted vocabulary words drawn from class items, lecture, and videos.

Grammatical Features

• demonstrate comprehensive mastery of target, content-specific commands, questions, and statements.

• identify grammatical features within short dialogues in ASL.

Conversational and Communication Skills

• demonstrate comprehension and conversation facilitating behaviors.

• demonstrate comprehension and production of regulating behaviors (i.e. attention-getting techniques, turn-taking signals, and others)

• comprehend short narratives and stories in ASL assigned by the professor, Deaf users of ASL, or viewed on ASL videos.

• demonstrate the ability to create, conduct and terminate a short content- specific conversation in American Sign Language only (receptive and expressive).

Cultural Awareness

• analyze and critique competing perspectives of diverse Deaf communities in the United States and Canada, ideas, aesthetic traditions, and cultural practices, and its history.

• compare, contrast, and interpret differences and commonalities among Deaf and hearing cultures.