American Sign Language Level 8 (ASLD 2180)
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 code: ASLD 2180
Credits: 3.0
Length: 60.0 hours
Course outline:
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0Additional Information
- 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
† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.