Explores the difference between interpreting and transliterating. Prepares students to make accurate sign choices, additions, and omissions, and develop restructuring, mouthing, and code-switching skills. Covers the decision-making and processing skills necessary to transfer information from spoken English to a signed code, and vice versa, via the practice of transliteration.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
ASL-237 is designed to help students accurately process and transmit spoken English into any one of several English-oriented varieties of manual communications between Deaf and hearing people.
- Signing Modes
- Signing Exact English accuracy
- Conceptually accurate signed vocabulary
- Transliterating
- Signing Speed and Fluency
- Tactile signing
- Code-switching
- Demonstrate a variety of signing modes such as Manually Coded English (MCE), Signed Exact English (SEE), Pidgin Signed English (PSE) and other systems used by groups of Deaf and hard of hearing individuals with various disabilities
- Develop an awareness of SEE and illustrate use at a basic level in an educational setting
- Demonstrate a knowledge of multiple-meaning words (conceptually accurate signed vocabulary) and how to produce them, adding additional signs as necessary
- Demonstrate ability to sign in English word order, while concurrently mouthing English words and using semantically accurate signs
- Increase transliteration speed and fluency
- Facilitate auditory and visual information to Deaf-Blind clients while using the tactile technique
- Differentiate between American Sign Language interpretation and transliteration while producing modes such as MCE, SEE, and PSE
Note: A grade of C- is not transferrable and is not accepted by some programs at HFC.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessment of academic achievement will be identified and implemented by the class instructor. Methods will include, but not be limited to:
- Participation
- Weekly/regular quizzes
- Homework assignments
- Chapter/unit tests
- Oral/receptive-expressive exam(s)
- Midterm/final exam
All sections of this level will use a textbook (and any accompanying materials) selected by the course coordinator and approved by the World Languages Committee.