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ASL 3 COURSE DESCRIPTION
The ASL 3 course is designed for students to have opportunities to build upon previously learned skills that will enable them to communicate at a higher level of proficiency in the target language. Students will have ample opportunity to apply their knowledge of ASL including non manual grammatical features, dynamic equivalences, classifiers and gestures, pronominalization, use of space, and a variety of sentence structures. Throughout this course they will be able to do so with increased fluency to effectively engage in meaningful, extended real world conversations. Cultural aspects of the language and community will be reinforced and introduced. All objectives are cumulative and therefore build upon one another.
Students will develop their skills in accordance with the state standards for presentational, interpersonal, and interpretive modes of communication. The students will have the opportunity to engage in drill practices for everyday conversations, presentations, self-assessment of expressive work through recordings, videos, and workbook activities, with the ultimate goal being the ability to comfortably converse on the topics presented in this curriculum with members of the Deaf community as well as the signing community.
ASL 3 COURSE PROFICIENCIES R/S TRACK
●Demonstrate comprehension of topics introduced in the target language
● Demonstrate the ability to use the target language to discuss, at the intermediate level, of various
everyday topics
● Apply and utilize vocabulary and structures in the target language with increased fluency
● Create authentic dialogues based on given scenarios for effective communication in real life interactions
● Identify and apply the 5 registers of language
● Express and comprehend opinions and ideas in the target language
● Distinguish and compare Deaf Culture and customs to their own culture and customs
● Demonstrate the ability to gather information from various readings, websites, or other authentic
cultural artifacts (music, pop culture, media and news)
● Design and present multimedia projects on topics introduced throughout the course