Block 4 - ASL II S1

ASL II COURSE DESCRIPTION 

ASL II is designed as a continuation of ASL I. Students will build on skills learned in ASL I and move towards a higher level of proficiency in the target language. The focus of level II is an expansion of vocabulary and grammatical structures to afford the students an opportunity to engage in meaningful, extended conversations on a variety of real life situations. Students will work on advancing their fingerspelling, number, NMS, and sentence structure skills to further this goal. 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.

Overall Student Learning Objectives (these endure throughout all units):

Students will be able to:

● operate in a “voice-off” environment and function as visual learners

● accurately use the language, including facial expressions/NMS

● use signing space appropriately.

● reproduce signs accurately, and make efforts to sign new vocabulary as it is learned

● use directionality efficiently.

● use topic/comment structure effectively

● use classifiers when appropriate

● use temporal aspect accurately

● use contrastive structure when necessary

● greet and interact with members of the Deaf community using basic greetings.

● demonstrate respect for the target language by having hands and eyes ready to communicate.

● inquire about and share personal information about familiar topics.

● share factual information on topics related to people, places, things, recent experiences.

● demonstrate mastery of both receptive and expressive fingerspelling at a novice-intermediate

level of speed.

● share opinions and ideas about likes and dislikes across a broad spectrum of topics

● demonstrate strategies for maintaining eye contact, interrupting, and getting someone’s

attention.

● employ the concept of numerical incorporation where appropriate

● demonstrate turn taking