Maricopa Community Colleges  SLG102   19976-20036 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 04/22/97
SLG102 19976-20036 LEC 4 Credit(s) 4 Period(s)
American Sign Language II
Continued development of knowledge and language skills for communicating with deaf people who sign. Includes numbers, fingerspelling, and culture. Emphasis on enhancement of receptive sign skills and continued development of expressive sign skills. Application of rudimentary, syntactical, and grammatical structure stressed with continued development of sign vocabulary. Prerequisites: SLG101, with a grade of "C" or better, or permission of department/division. SLG110 suggested as a corequisite but not required.
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
SLG102   19976-20036 American Sign Language II
1. Demonstrate expressive and receptive mastery of grammatical features of American Sign Language (A.S.L.) sentence types, time, pronominalization, direction verbs, classifiers, locatives, and plurals in specific commands, questions, and statements. (I)
2. Demonstrate expressive and receptive mastery of targeted lexicon. (II)
3. Identify and produce simple fingerspelled words and "loan" signs in context. (III)
4. Apply A.S.L. skills in communicating short stories, narratives, and dialogues. (IV)
5. Initiate, conduct, and terminate medium length conversations in A.S.L.(IV)
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MCCCD Official Course Outline:
 
SLG102   19976-20036 American Sign Language II
    I. Basic Grammatical Features of A.S.L.
        A. Sentence types
          1. Declarative
          2. Questions
          3. Commands
          4. Topicalized
          5. Conditional
        B. Grammatical features of time
          1. Time line
          2. Referent point
          3. Directions at movement
          4. Incorporation of specific units
        C. Pronominalization
          1. Referents
          2. Plurals
          3. Spatial locations
          4. Possessives
          5. Reflexives
        D. Verbs
          1. Defining subjects and objects
          2. Modulations
          3. Distributional aspects
        E. Classifiers
          1. Handshapes
          2. Size and shape specifiers
          3. Modulation
        F. Locatives
          1. Incorporating verbs
          2. Directionality
        G. Plurals
        H. Temporal aspects
          1. "Long time"
          2. "Regularly"
          3. "Over time"
      II. Targeted Lexicon
        III. Fingerspelling
            A. Expressive
            B. Receptive
            C. Loans
          IV. Application of A.S.L. skills
              A. Stories
              B. Narratives
              C. Dialogues
              D. Spontaneous conversations
                1. Initiating
                2. Conducting
                3. Terminating
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