American Sign Language 4 Honors - 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, lectures, and videos.
Grammatical Features
Demonstrate comprehensive mastery of target, content-specific commands, questions, and statements in ASL.
Identify grammatical features within short dialogues in ASL directed by the professor.
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 signed by the professor, Deaf ASL speakers, or ASL videos added by the professor.
Demonstrate the ability to create, conduct and terminate a short content-specific conversation.
Cultural Awareness
Analyze and critique competing perspectives of diverse Deaf Communities in the United States and Canada, ideas, aesthetic traditions, cultural practices, and history.
Compare, contrast, and interpret differences and commonalities among Deaf and hearing cultures.