Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- strategies to identify and use different categories of classifiers.
- strategies to identify and use different types of non-manual markers, including mouth morphemes.
- the temporal aspects used in ASL and English.
- the grammatical structure of sentences in ASL and English.
- the formation of similar verbs and nouns in ASL.
- the characteristics of verbs, nouns and pronouns in ASL and English.
Skills
Students are able to:
- use different types of classifiers and non-manual markers to represent appropriate concepts.
- use different types of non-manual markers, including mouth morphemes, to represent appropriate concepts.
- use various temporal aspects of verbs to represent and compare different aspects of the action.
- identify and list the similarities and differences in syntax, verbs, nouns, and pronouns in ASL and English.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- by learning another language one can better understand how the native language works.
- ASL and English are produced in a different modality.
- ASL is not a signed version of English.
- the language characteristics of ASL differ from English.
- ASL word order differs from English word order.
