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SLIP 1911L

Credit Hours 1
Course Title Interpreting Lab I
Prerequisite(s) Acceptance into Sign Language Interpreting Program
Corequisite(s) SLIP 1911
Catalog Description
This is a skills laboratory to accompany SLIP 1911.  Assignments are designed to reinforce classroom concepts.  Field observation of working interpreters is also included.

Expected Educational Results
Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to sign an ASL narrative using appropriate sign production, vocabulary, sentence structure and narrative structure.  The component skills include the student being able to:

Sign Production

1. Produce known signs accurately
2. Identify the four parameters (handshape, palm orientation, movement, location) of a given sign
3. Analyze a signed work to identify sign production errors.
ASL Grammar

4. Identify and produce correct ASL sentence structure incorporating:
a. Conditional and When clauses
b. Verb modulation to express temporal aspects of frequency and duration
c. Appropriate non-manual components:
(1) Eye movements, eye gaze
(2) Mouth movement
(3) Head movement
d. Classifier used as:
(1) Pronouns
(2) Verbs
(3) Descriptors: size, shape, depth, texture
e. Distributional aspect of verbs
f. Pluralization


5. Recognize unfamiliar vocabulary and determine semantic equivalent
6. Use expanded vocabulary which is conceptually accurate
7. Recognize and use common fingerspelled loans signs

Comprehension Skills

8. After viewing a narrative in ASL, students will demonstrate comprehension by summarizing or paraphrasing the narrative or by answering questions.
9. Participate in ASL conversations
10. Identify grammatical structures in ASL narrative

General Education Outcomes
3. This course relates to the general education outcome relating to academic preparation as follows:
b. Students explore other career programs related to American Sign Language and deafness.

Course Content
This course is taught predominantly in the language of ASL without the use of voice.

1. ASL Grammar
a. Clauses and conditionals
b. Verb modulation for temporal aspect
c. Classifiers
d. Distributional aspect
e. Non-manual markers

2. Skills Development
a. Sign production
b. ASL vocabulary
c. Conversational strategies
d. Comprehension

Assessment of Outcome Objectives
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Last Revised: Mar. 25, 2009
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