ASL 202 - Intermediate American Sign Language II KCC AA/HSL

Institution:

Kapiolani Community College

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Description:

3 hours lecture, 2 hours lab per week Prerequisite(s): ASL 20or equivalent or instructor consent. In ASL 202, students continue to refine the language skills and knowledge acquired in American Sign Language 101-201. To strengthen their fluency, students will concentrate on describing objects, events, locations and complicated circumstances in greater detail. Also, creative expressions of ASL will be covered extensively. Upon successful completion of ASL 202, the student should be able to: Demonstrate increased control and confidence over grammar, vocabulary and common expressions used in daily conversation. Describe unusual objects and their function in great detail by using appropriate descriptive and instrument classifiers. Show the distinction between similar objects. Make recommendations, give opinions, express feelings about certain activities, and handle digressions and interruptions. Describe various disruptions using element classifiers. Recognize and use more complex adverbial and adjectival facial modifiers. Accurately use complex numbers and temporal markers, inflecting and spatial verbs, and comparative and contrastive structure. Comfortably negotiate common interactions, such as shopping and dining out. Sustain and comprehend longer narratives about various circumstances and activities. Demonstrate appropriate social and cultural behaviors in a variety of settings. Discuss, in detail, aspects of the Deaf Community not previously covered in ASL 101-201, including its culture and the role of ASL in the lives of Deaf people. Demonstrate examples of creative ASL (i.e., Sign play). Identify and understand several forms of ASL literature. Produce transcriptions of complex ASL texts. Use and show comprehension at the intermediate level of fingerspelled words and lexical borrowings. Provide feedback in ASL to classmates during large and small group activities.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Institution Website:

kapiolani.hawaii.edu/page/home

Phone Number:

(808) 734-9000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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