Maricopa Community Colleges  SLG202   20042-99999 

Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 05-27-03

SLG202 2004 Spring – 2009 Summer II

LEC

4 Credit(s)

4 Period(s)

American Sign Language IV

Advanced American Sign Language skills including continued vocabulary. Emphasis on conversational techniques in a cross-cultural framework. Continued work on conceptual accurate signing of English idioms and words with multiple meanings.

Prerequisites: SLG103 and SLG201 with a grade of C or better, or permission of Department or Division. Suggested but not required: ENG101, SLG200, and CRE101 or CRE111 or exemption by score on the reading placement test (ASSET).

 

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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

 

 

SLG202 2004 Spring – 2009 Summer II

American Sign Language IV

 

1.

Recognize contact signing and its role in communicating with deaf persons. (I)

2.

Apply expressive and receptive mastery of grammatical features of American Sign Language (A.S.L.) at an advanced level: sentence types, time, pronominalization, verbs, classifiers in specific commands, questions, and statements. (II)

3.

Apply expressive and receptive mastery of targeted lexicon. (III)

4.

Translate intermediate A.S.L. idioms into equivalent English phrases. (IV)

5.

Apply A.S.L. skills in communicating short stories, narratives, and dialogues at the advanced level. (V)

6.

Initiate, conduct, and terminate spontaneous conversations of medium length in A.S.L. (V)

7.

Demonstrate basic translation skills from English to A.S.L. and A.S.L. to English. (VI)

 

 

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MCCCD Official Course Outline:

 

 

SLG202 2004 Spring – 2009 Summer II

American Sign Language IV

 

 

I. Contact Signing

A. Role in communication

B. Syntax

II. Grammatical Features of A.S.L. at Advanced Level

A. Sentence types

B. Features of time

C. Pronominalization

D. Verbs

E. Classifiers

III. Targeted Lexicon

IV. A.S.L. Idioms

A. Production

B. Translation

C. English equivalents

V. Application of A.S.L. Skills at Advanced Level

A. Stories

B. Narratives

C. Dialogues

D. Spontaneous conversations

VI. Readiness for Interpreting

A. Translation from A.S.L. to English

B. Translation from English to A.S.L.

 

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