Curriculum for the Study of American Sign Language

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Course Title

American Sign Language (ASL)

Course Number

American Sign Language 3 (ASL 3)

ASL Instructor:

1. Course Title

American Sign Language 3

II. Course Hours/Meeting Times per Week

Four hours a week, a 2-hours class that meets on Monday and Wednesday

III. Course Description

The course provides an advance study of American Sign Language (ASL), ASL 3 presents an introduction to the fundamentals of American Sign Language, and it explores deeply the linguistics of ASL. Topics covered are lexicalized finger-spelling and loan signs, vocabulary, grammatical structures, culture awareness, and conversation. This course is designed for students with an intermediate to advanced level understanding of ASL principles. ASL 3 meets the elective requirements in the Associate of Interpreter Program and transfer requirements in foreign languages.

IV. Course Objectives

To review and develop vocabulary and grammar of ASL on an intermediate level.

To complete development of basic inflectional system and non-manual grammatical features of ASL.

To attain appropriate discourse fluency with special attention given to signing competency.

To refine the understanding and use of appropriate cultural behaviors as related to ASL.

V. Evaluations & Grading Criteria

Course Grading: approximately 930 points (+/- pop quizzes , etc.)

1. Written Tests (includes Final): grammar and culture150 points

2. Written Tests (includes Final): language comprehension150 points

3. Signed Presentation (+CAA)*170 points

*Requires consultation appointment

4. Quizzes (5) 50 points

5. Packet Homework Assignments 50 points

6. Video Projects 360 points

6. Attendance/ParticipationTHREE absences allowed without penalty to final grade, or possible exclusion from class. Three tardies equal one absence.

Assessment and Evaluation

The formative assessment is providing feedback to teachers and students in the course. Information gained through informal assessments provides opportunities for teachers to make adjustments to the way in which they deliver instruction. For instance, they may reteach a concept, use alternative instructional approaches, or offer more opportunities for practice and reinforcement. These activities can lead to improved student success. In order in Formative assessment areas on active feedback loops that assist learning.

Teachers use formative assessments both to provide feedback to students about their progress and to guide decisions about next steps in the learning process, thereby closing the gap between the learners current and desired states. Popham (2008) defines formative assessment as a planned process in which teachers or students use assessment-based evidence to adjust what they are currently doing (p. 15). The operative word in this definition is process, in that formative assessment is happening throughout the learning, as opposed to summative assessment, which is often a one-time event that occurs at the end of a learning unit and is used to make judgments about student competence.

There are the four elements of the Formative Assessment Process, which is essential. As following, the included describing such as identifying the gap, feedback, learning progressions, and student involvement.

Identifying the gap is the process of defining the difference (the gap) between what students know and what they need to know; it includes collaboration between teacher and learner to identify learning goals and outcomes and criteria for achieving these.

Feedback(i.e., rich conversations between the teacher and student) gives the teacher information needed to identify the current status of a students learning as well as the specific next steps that he or she can take to improve. Teacher feedback to students must be both constructive and timely to enable students to advance their learning. It must include a description of how their response differed from that reflected in the desired learning goal and how they can move forward. Student feedback and reflection can alert the teacher of the need to modify instructional approaches.

The teacher to break a learning goal into smaller, more manageable subgoals uses learning progressions. The teacher identifies a students location on the learning continuum and works collaboratively with the student to set a series of smaller goals.

Involving students in decisions about their own learning and in self-assessment helps students to engage in reflection and build their metacognitive skills. See the TEAL Center Fact Sheet No. 4 on Metacognitive Processes. There is a profound influence on student motivation and self-esteem when students are involved in self-assessments and understand how to improve.

A teacher will ask the students to form groups and come up with three strategic questions about a topic that they will be handling at that time so as to help them meet their learning target..

The student must earn above average marks on all assigned go react, tests, expressive assignments, final exam, packet homework assignments, deaf event, participation, and attendance. The student must show a good understanding of an advance American Sign Language both receptively and expressively.

Before a lesson on a certain topic, the teacher will state the goals for the class and will ask the students to rewrite the goals in their own words. Several sub-goals will be generated in the process and will be discussed during the lesson.

In his feedback, the teacher will show students what they did correctly. The teacher then gives students a strategy to use in improving their learning skills.

VI. Text(s) Finger-spelling in American Sign Language by Brenda E. Cartwright and Suellen J. Bahleda, and Signing naturally by Cheri Smith, Ella Mae Lentz, and Ken Mikos.

VII. Course Outline (Show activities per each class meeting time)

ASL 3

Tentative Course Schedule

Spring 2016

Week 1

Jan 12 Introduction, Syllabus, Review

Jan 14 Review Units 1-12 (ASL 1140 & 1150)

Week 2

Jan 19 Unit 13

Homework Packet 1 Due

Video Topics:

The Coffee Table

The Wooden Box

Jan 21 Unit 13

CAA#1

Video Topic:

Jakes New House

Week 3

Jan 26 Unit 13

Homework Packet 2 Due

Video Topics:

Silent Dinner at the Mall

ASL and Sign Systems

Jan 28 Quiz #1-Unit 13

Homework Packet 3 Due

Video Topic:

Car Problem

Week 4

Feb 2 Unit 14

CAA # 2 Due

Homework Packet 4 Due

Video Topics:

Lots of Money

Tons of Homework

Feb 4 Unit 14

Presentation # 1

Video Topic:

The Deaf Club

Week 5

Feb 9 Unit 14

Presentation # 1

Homework Packet 5 & 6 Due

Video Topics:

Paying Bills

Categories of Dogs

Feb 11 Unit 14

Presentation # 1

CAA# 3

Video Topic:

Lukes Schedule

Week 6

Feb 16 Quiz # 2-Unit 14

Homework Packet 7 Due

Video Topics:

My Old Friend

Buying a New Car

Feb 18 Review Study Guide, Units 13-14

Homework Packet 8 Due

Video Topic:

Rain in Florida

Week 7

Feb 23 Test # 1 Units 13-14

Feb 25 Unit 15

Homework Packet 9 Due

CAA# 4

Video Topics:

The Word Up

Politics

Week 8

March 1 Unit 15

Presentation # 2

CAA #2 Due

Video Topics:

The Right Choice

The Outing

March 3 Unit 15

Presentation # 2

Homework Packet 10 Due

Video Topics:

Missing Miss Brooks

Week 9

March 8 Spring Break

March 10 Spring Break

Week 10

March 15 Unit 15

Presentation # 2

CAA# 5

Video Topics:

Baryshnikov

Officers at the Club for the Deaf

March 17 Quiz #3- Unit 15

Homework Packet 11 Due

Video Topics:

Sequencing Fractions

Week 11

March 22 Unit 16

CAA #6

Homework Packet 12 Due

Video Topics:

Explain about the Deaf Event Flyer

Biographies for Deaf Heritage

March 24 Unit 16

Presentation # 3

CAA# 6

Video Topic:

Winter in Pennsylvania

Week 12

March 29 Unit 16

Presentation # 3

Video Topics:

The Buffer

Making the Perfect Pizza

March 31 Unit 16

Video Topics:

Explain about the deaf comic strip

Week 13

April 5 Quiz #4- Unit 16

Presentation # 3

Homework Packet 13 and 14 Due

Video Topics:

The Favorite Holiday

The Airport

April 7 Unit 15-16

Review Study Guide # 2

CAA# 7

Video Topics:

Buying Books

My Favorite Sport

Week 14

April 12 Test # 2-Units 15 & 16

April 14 Unit 17

Homework Packet 15 Due

CAA# 8

Video Topics:

Where Do You Want to Go?

Earthquakes

Skydiving

Week 15

April 19 Unit 17

Quiz # 5- Unit 17

CAA #9

Review for finals

April 21 Review Study Guide Final Exam

CAA# 10

Week 16

April 26 Final Exam: Part 1 Signed Comprehension

April 28 Final Exam: Part II Grammar

FINALS WEEK - Tuesday, May 3

Lesson Plan

For One Class Period

Objective:

Students will learn about various Deception (Classifiers) and students will identify and explain the various linguistic principles of ASL. The students will learn how to express in sign about Classifiers in ASL. Students will be able to sign and master classifiers and express how they describe the descriptive, and locative positioning.

Activity descriptions

a.Introduction:

Some of the linguistics comprised by the ASL includes the phonemes, morpheme, and hold-movement theory. Furthermore, it contains the understanding the five registers andthe pragmatics. It also contains the semantics as one of its linguistics. Morphology has been used since time immemorial to mean the morphemes, which in other words a smaller language unit that can no longer be categorized further.

The free morphemes refer to word that do not require attachment of other words since they already have meaning and can express themselves. For instance, the sign elephant already has a meaning and can no longer be broken to provide another meaning. On the other hand, bound morphemes are morphemes that require another word to have proper meaning. When they are not attached to...