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Intro to American Sign Language Course

This document provides information about an introductory American Sign Language course. The course will be taught by Abbie Beth Mendel in Room 201, and focuses on developing basic conversational skills in ASL and an understanding of Deaf culture. Students will use the textbook "Signing Naturally" and cover units on introducing oneself, exchanging personal information, where they live, family, and everyday activities. Instruction will be conducted entirely in ASL using videos, demonstrations, discussions and activities. Students will be assessed on participation, assignments, experiential learning hours, quizzes, a midterm, and final exam focusing on expressive and receptive ASL skills. Academic integrity is strictly enforced, and accommodations can be provided for disabilities

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Intro to American Sign Language Course

This document provides information about an introductory American Sign Language course. The course will be taught by Abbie Beth Mendel in Room 201, and focuses on developing basic conversational skills in ASL and an understanding of Deaf culture. Students will use the textbook "Signing Naturally" and cover units on introducing oneself, exchanging personal information, where they live, family, and everyday activities. Instruction will be conducted entirely in ASL using videos, demonstrations, discussions and activities. Students will be assessed on participation, assignments, experiential learning hours, quizzes, a midterm, and final exam focusing on expressive and receptive ASL skills. Academic integrity is strictly enforced, and accommodations can be provided for disabilities

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T.H.

Gallaudet School
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
Instructor Name: Abbie Beth Mendel

Location: Room #201

Phone: 702-555-1212

Email: [email protected]

Office Hours: M-Th 3pm-4pm or by appointment

Course Overview

This is an introductory course designed to attain basic conversational skills in ASL and introduce
the culture of the Deaf community. The focus of this course will be on development in ASL
vocabulary, statement structures, and receptive abilities.

Textbook Required:

Signing Naturally
Units 1-5.
Lentz, E., Mikos, K. and Smith, C., 2008. Signing Naturally. San Diego, CA: DawnSignPress.

Course Outline:

 Unit 1: Introducing oneself


 Unit 2: Exchanging personal information
 Unit 3: Talking about where you live
 Unit 4: Talking about Family
 Unit 5: Talking about everyday activities

Instructional Methods:

ASL is a heavily interactive course that uses a variety of instructional approaches, including
teacher and student presentations, demonstrations, videos, discussions, group, and partner
activities, all of which will be done in ASL, without voice. Students are expected to participate
without exception.

Student Outcomes:
 The student will achieve receptive and expressive mastery of targeted, context specific
commands, questions and statements by producing live and video samples of their work
in ASL and English.
 The student will observe short dialogues in ASL and will demonstrate an understanding
of the material by responses in English and ASL.
 The student will recognize and express in ASL a targeted set of ASL vocabulary items.
 Given a set of conversation regulating behaviors, the student will be able to correctly
demonstrate their use in dialogues.
 The student will recall and re-formulate short narratives, stories, etc., provided in ASL.
 The student will initiate, conduct, and terminate short context-specific conversations.

Grading:

Participation- 10%

 Actively becoming involved in the classroom is conducive to understanding language as


a whole.

Assignments/Homework: 20%

 All assignments must be completed fully and turned in on time.

Experiential Learning Hours (10 hours)- 10%

 Experiential learning hours are required activities outside of the classroom that require
the student to independently explore a myriad of Deaf community related activities. This
can be done by attending deaf events, reading books, watching videos (must be approved
by the teacher in advance), etc. Students will write a one-page journal entry for each
event.

Assessments/Quizzes- 30%

 Quizzes and assessments will be given during class and will be designed to measure the
expressive or receptive skill of each student.

Final and Midterm- 30%

 The final exam and midterm will also be comprised of an expressive and receptive
assessment components. Students will be evaluaed using rubrics when appropriate.

Grading Scale:

Academic Integrity Policy:


This course has a zero tolerance for plagiarism and cheating both in and out of the class. Copying
and pasting from the internet or paraphrasing a few words is not an acceptable practice in
college. Not knowing the rules for plagiarism will not be an acceptable excuse. If you are unsure
about the rules of plagiarism, you should go to the writing center or to the library for support.
The minimum penalty for such offenses in this course is to fail the assignment. Infractions of the
Gallaudet School Student Academic Integrity Policy may also lead to reduced letter grade,
automatic failure of the course, suspension, expulsion, transcript notations or other sanctions
depending on the severity of the infraction.

ADA Statement:
Students with medical, psychological, learning or other disabilities desiring academic
adjustments, accommodations or auxiliary aids will need to contact a campus Disability
Resource Center: 702-555-1221. The Disability Center determines eligibility for and authorizes
the provision of services. For more visit: https://www.csn.edu/ada Students’ Rights and
Responsibilities Reference: http://gallaudetschool.edu

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