American Sign Language is designed to introduce a visual-gestural language used by the Deaf Community in Canada and the United States.
DurationAmerican Sign Language is designed to introduce a visual-gestural language used by the Deaf Community in Canada and the United States.
Students will focus on the basic conversational skills, emphasizing receptive and expressive abilities.
The courses stress a functional/notional approach, and give practice for visual/gestural communication followed by comprehension skills and grammatical structures.
Communicative competence in ASL ultimately depends on one's capabilities to satisfactorily progress through structured activities in a series of ASL courses.
The content for the courses in ASL is broken into introduction, sign production, extended comprehension, interaction, and breakaways, which include team- building, facial expression, visualization, command, and finger spelling.
Also, it includes cumulative reviews in which students learn how to make appropriate introductions, how to get someone's attention and how to negotiate the environment of signed conversations. Exposure to the Deaf Community improves abilities as
mentioned earlier.
American Sign Language is designed to introduce a visual-gestural language used by the Deaf Community in Canada and the United States. Students will focus on the basic conversational skills, emphasizing receptive and expressive abilities. The courses stress a functional/notional approach, and give practice for visual/gestural communication followed by comprehension skills and grammatical structures.Communicative competence in ASL ultimately depends on one's capabilities to satisfactorily progress through structured activities in a series of ASL courses.
The content for the courses in ASL is broken into introduction, sign production, extended comprehension, interaction, and breakaways, which include team- building, facial expression, visualization, command, and finger spelling. Also, it includes cumulative reviews in which students learn how to make appropriate introductions, how to get someone's attention and how to negotiate the environment of signed conversations. Exposure to the Deaf Community improves abilities as
mentioned earlier.
You will learn the linguistic fundamentals of ASL and how to use it as your second language in socio-cultural context
American Sign Language course is offered by Greater Essex County District School Board. Our courses are taught by highly qualified and experienced teacher who are extremely dedicated to ensuring you leave with all the necessary skills to broaden your horizons and never be lost for words again.
This program is designed to increase your fluency in American Sign Language (ASL) and help you to gain knowledge of Deaf culture and Deaf history so that you can effectively interact with Deaf individuals.
This course introduces foundations of American Sign Language including linguistic perspectives, dialogue skill set, vocabulary, and syntax. Instruction may also include sociocultural contexts regarding the Deaf community, culture, and history.
American Sign Language (ASL) is the third most popular foreign language, leading third in language course enrolments in post-secondary institutions in the U.S. after Spanish and French, according to Modern Language Association (2016).
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