ASL: 手話の語彙を増やす *音声オフ

In this six week course students will learn common signs from different parts of speech: nouns and pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. We will then examine and practice ASL sentence structure using these different parts of speech. This course is completely voice-off, which means there will be no talking allowed during this course. This is an instruction course - I will instruct using sign language (a base knowledge of ASL is highly recommended to get the full benefit of the lesson), the text/chat box and possibly a second computer screen and/or white board. Students are permitted to use the text/chat box during class, but only after an attempt to communicate in sign language has first been made. 

This course is a great way for students to build their sign language vocabulary while also getting to experience a voice-off environment.

Each week's meeting will consist of instruction, during which time students will learn new vocabulary pertaining to a certain part of speech. Students will be exposed to new noun, verb, adverb and adjective signs as well as be asked to reproduce these signs. The final two weeks of class will focus on the organization of these parts of speech into signed sentences. If your learner has already been exposed to the basic ASL sentence structure, this will be a great way for them to get to put that knowledge into practice. If your learner has not yet been exposed to basic sentence structure, this could be a wonderful chance for them to begin to understand the different ways in which ASL sentences can be organized.

Students are encouraged to ask questions (by way of signing or the text/chat box) about signs, sign language and Deaf culture in general.

What follows is an example outline for this six-week sign language course:

Week 1 - Study and Practice of Common Noun Signs
Week 2 - Study and Practice of Common Verb Signs
Week 3 - Study and Practice of Common Adjective Signs
Week 4 - Study and Practice of Common Adverb Signs
Week 5 - Study and Practice of ASL Syntax & Grammar/Sentence Structure
Week 6 - Study and Practice of ASL Syntax & Grammar/Sentence Structure