Course description
Continuation of emphasis on ASL narration skills, as in Level 7. This course guides intermediate-advanced ASL users to focus on developing skills in comprehending and using ASL narrative techniques, classifiers and locatives, and ASL non-manual markers with the mouth. Students will advance their skills in creating cohesive ASL discourse using appropriate discourse topic and transition markers. Students will also apply skills related to discourse mapping of ASL texts and reconstruct ASL discourse from diagrams of their own design. This course is required for students in the Sign Language Interpretation program.
Course content
Sentence structures, vocabulary and narrative techniques:
- Non-manual markers made with the mouth
- Rhetorical questions
- Relative clauses
- Use of left/right space for comparisons
- Constructed dialogue and constructed action
- Time/tense markers and use of timelines
- Discourse genres: instructional, argumentative, informational, expository & persuasive
- 7 expansion/contextualization techniques
Building knowledge of ASL’s numbering systems:
- Variations in context-specific ordinal number formats
- Variations in context-specific cardinal number formats
- Money-related numbers and vocabulary
Narrating about major decisions, accidents, money management:
- Discourse markers for sequencing, comparing, explaining
- Related verbs and other vocabulary
- Sharing and giving opinions
Introduction to Deaf advocacy organizations and events:
- Local, provincial, national, international
Learning activities
Class activities may include lecture and language lab, demonstration/modelling, dialogue and small group conversational practice, course readings, videos, and shadowing language models, among others.
Means of assessment
This course will conform to the ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍø Evaluation policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation may include a combination of: