WL17.ASL.L2.3

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - American Sign Language

Students know:

strategies to present information to an audience or a recording device.
ASL vocabulary for people, activities, and anecdotes.
strategies/rules to represent the frequency or duration of the temporal aspect of the verb.
familiar ASL anecdotes.
strategies to present anecdotes, including conversations, using body shifts, contrastive structure and spatial referencing.
strategies/rules to present information in the past or present time frame.

Students are able to:

present to an audience or recording device basic information about people and activities using words, phrases, and simple sentences.
recite to an audience or recording device brief memorized anecdotes using target vocabulary and grammar.
use the past or present time frame to present information.
present some verbs showing duration and frequency correctly.
produce high frequency words and vocabulary words to present information.
present familiar anecdotes with accurate representation of information through body shifts, contrastive structure, and spatial referencing.

Students understand that:

effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
ASL can be used to engage in conversations to share information.
interpersonal communication requires the knowledge of linguistic elements.
information is often expressed in the target language with live audiences or via recorded devices.
the Deaf community has familiar anecdotes which hearing students can also memorize and recite.
ASL has past and present time frames.