After two weeks of getting to know each other this will be a voice of class where students will engage in classes using ASL.
American Sign Language 3 course, you will sharpen the skills you acquired in American Sign Language 1 and 2. Communication remains the main focus as you improve your language fluency, vocabulary, and presentational skills. We invite you to take your American Sign Language abilities to the next level! 


Students will continue and expand vocabulary and concepts acquired in ASL 1.
* talking about other people
* activities
*giving directions
* making requests.
* discourse skills appropriate for establishing connections with Deaf acquaintances
* handling interruptions.
* exposure to elements of Deaf culture and the Deaf community

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4. Recognize and utilize spatial referencing
a. "wave" right-left
b. utilize non-dominant hand as spatial referent
c. describe shapes and objects
i. Objects further described according to use
d. place and locate items within a "grid" (real and imagined)
e. Subject-Object verb agreement

5. Give directions
a. On same floor, different floors & different buildings
b. Use spatial & directional referents
i. Pointing
ii. Manual signs (NEXT-TO, BEHIND, IN-FRONT, NEAR/CLOSE-TO, ACROSS-FROM, etc.)
1. Recognize signs as originating from signer's perspective and make appropriate mental adjustments.
iii. Motion paths (around corner to right/left, straight ahead, upwards, downwards, etc.)
c. Give directions according to signers' own perspective
d. Utilize common reference points for shorter directions
e. Use of ordinal numbers for reference to floor
f. Use of "area" suffix for large spaces and general locations


6. Give descriptions
a. By ethnicity
b. By height/weight/body shape
c. By Hair color and style
d. By clothing (style, color & design)
e. By unusual distinguishing features
f. Personality characteristics

7. Pronomialization
a. First-person, Second-Person, Third-Person
b. Possessive Pronouns (1st, 2nd, 3rd Person)
c. Dual personal pronouns (TWO-OF-US, TWO-OF-THEM, etc.)

8. Classifiers
a. Limb classifiers
b. Whole-body classifiers
c. Object classifiers
d. Locative classifiers
e. Descriptive classifiers

9. Discourse
a. Create a short narrative based on a sequence of actions
b. Utilize non-dominant hand to rank a group, such as family members
i. Assign specific persons to each finger on Non-dominant hand as needed
ii. Utilize appropriate finger when ranking ordinally
iii. Make continued reference to person(s) by pointing to assigned finger

10. Pragmatics
a. Attention-getting
i. From near distance
1. Tap arm, shoulder
2. arm-wave
ii. From medium (within visual range) distance
1. arm-wave
2. move self into visual range of other person with arm-wave
b. Asking questions
i. About self
ii. About conversant
iii. About third person
c. Making introductions & giving information about:
i. Self
ii. Second person
iii. Third (non-present) person


d. Correcting information
i. Use "wave-no"
ii. Use signs for negation
e. Confirming information
i. Repetition of question in statement form
ii. Use of head nods and abbreviated repetition of question in statement form
iii. Use of "THAT-ONE"
f. Conversational strategies
i. Feedback/Back-channeling
1. OH-I-SEE, RIGHT
2. "wow"
3. Nodding
4. Asking for repetition
5. Asking for other to slow their signing
6. Showing comprehension/noncomprehension
ii. Express degrees of uncertainty
iii. Check and confirm identification of people and objects
iv. Informing of interruptions
g. Make requests
i. Explain needs
ii. Utilize varying register levels according to relationship
h. Offer assistance
i. Obey & give commands
i. Make accurate responses
ii. Ask for clarification to unclear commands
iii. Identify objects & people
1. identify by appearance
a. Hair (color, style, length)
b. Ethnicity/race
c. Height
i. Must show approximate height in relation to one's self
d. Weight/Bone structure
e. Facial features
f. Unusual/Distinguishing features
2. identify by location
3. identify by activity
j. Give excuses
i. In-class
1. For events already occurred
2. For events that will occur
ii. In small groups
1. For events that are occurring at the present moment


k. Negotiating signing environments
i. Entering a conversation with appropriate manners
ii. Going between people conversing in signs
iii. Going around people conversing in signs
iv. Moving self to be more clearly seen by others
v. Asking others to move to see signing more clearly
1. Asking third parties
2. Asking signer
l. Making and declining invitations
i. Accepting invitation
ii. Declining invitation, with reason
iii. Negotiating and solving conflicts
m. Sign with one hand (food/drink/object in other)

11. Develop visual skills
a. Visual tracking
b. Movement & path perception

12. Understand elements of Deaf culture
a. Name Signs
b. Perceptions of educational approaches
i. Oralism
ii. Manualism
iii. Speech teaching
c. Appropriate ways to make interruptions
d. Differences between Hearing and Deaf cultural interactions

13. Vocabulary
a. Buildings
i. Architectural features
ii. Rooms
iii. Floors
iv. Directional
b. Places
i. General
ii. SpecificRelationships between selves and others
c. Food/Drink (Extended)
d. Problems/Reasons why one does not want something (broken, locked, closed, dirty, etc.)
e. Clothing
i. Types of articles
1. Styles
2. Patterns/Designs
3. Colors
f. Descriptors
i. Hair
1. Style/length/color
ii. Ethnicity/Race
iii. Height
iv. Weight/Bone structure
v. Objects
1. Type
2. Size
3. Style
g. Verbs
i. Plain
ii. Spatial
iii. Inflectional
h. Occupational signs
i. Workplaces
j. Relationship signs
i. Positive relationships
ii. Negative relationships
k. Daily Routines
i. Morning
ii. Evening

14. Metalinguistics
a. Able to make translations from sign to English
i. Recognize that signs may have more than one English meaning
ii. Recognize that some signs may not have a one-one correspondence with specific English words
b. Recognize that ASL is an oral, unwritten language
c. Able to generate utterances based on own interests from vocabulary and structures learned throughout course