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SLNG-1321-002 Introduction to the Interpreting Profession
An overview of the field of sign language interpretation. Provides an historical framework for the principles, ethics, roles, responsibilities and standard practices of the Interpreting Profession.
Student Resources Student Resources Website
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(3 sem hrs; 3 lec)
On Campus Course
\ Signing Naturally-Level II Workbook and DVD
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In order to receive your AC Connect Email, you must log in through AC Connect at https://acconnect.actx.edu .
If you are an active staff or faculty member according to Human Resources, use "Exchange". All other students, use "AC Connect (Google) Email".
\ Cell Phones and Pagers:Cell phones and pagers are not prohibited; however, please be considerate of others. Cell phones in the "silent or vibrate" mode are acceptable. Texting during class is unacceptable.
\\ Food and Drink: Please be responsible with food and drink that you bring into class.
| Assignments | 25% |
| Tests | 50% |
| Final Exam | 25% |
Final grades for this course will be based on the components of the course and will be calculated as follows. Lecture will cover five units. Each unit will have three parts: written, receptive and expressive.
Final course averages will be calculated and assigned letter grades.
A = 89.5-100
B = 79.5-89.4
C = 69.5-79.4
D = 59.6-69.4
F = 59.6 or below
Exams that are missed can be replaced by a re-approved project. A student who must be absent from the final must petition the instructor to arrange an alternate date.
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\ Midterm and Final, others my be given
\\ Final exam will be given.
\\ Learning Outcome 1: The student will demonstrate with a minimum of 70% accuracy, the ability to comprehend information presented in American Sign Language, based on "Signing Naturally" units 13-17. Topics include: Locating Objects around the house, complaining, making suggestions and requests, and exchaning personal information
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Performance objectives for this outcome regarding to locating things around the house:
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1.01 The student will demonstrate comprehension of floor plans.
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1.02 The student will demonstrate comprehension of items or objects placed around a certain room.
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1.03 The student will demonstrate comprehension of reference points making location of non-present objects.
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1.04 The student will demonstrate comprehension of quantifiers.
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1.05 The student will demonstrate comprehension of confirming and/or correcting information.
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1.06 The student will demonstrate comprehension of numbers 101-999.
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1.07 The student will demonstrate comprehension of vocabulary related to rooms in a house.
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Performance objectives for this outcomes regarding complaining, making suggestions, and requests:
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1.08 The student will demonstrate comprehension of inflecting verbs used to clarify action from point A to point B.
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1.09 The student will demonstrate comprehension of role shifting between characters in a narrative.
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1.10 The student will demonstrate comprehension of vocabulary related to ailments, complaints and requests.
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1.11 The student will indentify and comprehend the differences in conversationsl strategies: asking for clarification, clarifying, agreeing, declining, and hedging.
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1.12 The student will demonstrate comprehension of and identification of emphathizing signs.
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1.13 The student will demonstrate the ability to comprehend and identify suggesting phrases in ASL.
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Performance objectives for this outcome regarding exchanging personal information and life events.
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1.14 The student will demonstrate comprehension of money signs.
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1.15 The student will demonstrate comprehension of clock signs.
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1.16 The student will demonstrate comprehension of signs related to time.
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1.17 The student will demonstrate comprehension of and identification of possessive forms of pronouns.
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1.18 The student will demonstrate comprehension of addresses that incorporate numbers and finger spelling.
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1.19 The student will demonstrate comprehension of proper sign names related to countries around the world.
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1.20 The student will demonstrate comprehension of sign names related to things or events that could change one's life physically, spiritually and mentally.
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1.21 The student will demonstrate comprehension of signs related to bloodlines and family trees.
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1.22 The student will comprehend signs related to religion and races.
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Performance objectives for this outcome regarding describing and identifying things:
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1.23 The student will demonstrate comprehension of signs related to materials, food and opinions of food.
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1.24 The student will comprehend and identify money signs from $1.00 to $999.00.
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Performance objectives for this outcome regarding weekend activities and vacation events:
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1.25 The student will demonstrate comprehension of signs related to seasons, weekend and vacations.
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1.26 The student will demonstrate comprehension of "year" and "age" signs.
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1.27 The student will demonstrate comprehension of all kinds of possible problems that occur over a weekend.
\ Learning Outcome 2: The student will demonstrate with a minimum of 70% accuracy, the ability to express information presented in American Sign Language, based on "Signing Naturally" units 13-17. Topics include: Locating objects around the house, complaining, making suggestions and requests, exchanging personal information: life events, describing and identifying things and talking about the weekend.
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2.01 The student will demonstrate the ability to explain floor plans.
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2.02 The student will demonstrate the ability to discuss how items or objects are placed around a room.
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2.03 The student will demonstrate use of ordinal numbers: first, second, third, etc.
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2.04 The student will demonstrate use of quantifiers.
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2.05 The student will demonstrate the ability to confirm and correct information.
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2.06 The student will demonstrate use of numbers: 101-999.
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2.07 The student will demonstrate use of vocabulary related to rooms in a house, parts of a house, building materials, furniture, accessories/fixtures, big appliances, etc.
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Performance objectives for this outcomes regarding complaining, makiing suggestions and requests:
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2.08 The student will demonstrate use of vocabulary related to ailments, complaints and requests.
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2.09 The student will demonstrate various means of conversational strategies including: asking for clarification, clarifying, agreeing, declining, and hedging.
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2.10 The student will demonstrate use of showiing empathy signs.
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2.11 The student will demonstrate use of suggesting phrases according to ASL structure.
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Performance objectives for this outcome regarding exchaning personal information: life events.
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2.12 The student will demonstrate the use of money signs.
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2.13 The student will demonstrate the use of clock signs.
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2.14 The student will demonstrate the use of general time signs.
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2.15 The student will demonstrate the ability to incorporate numbers, and finger spelling of addresses.
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2.16 The student will demonstrate proper sign names relating to countries around the world.
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2.17 The student will demonstrate use of vocabulary related to things or events that could change one's life physically, spiritually, and mentally.
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2.18 The student will demonstrate use of vocabulary signs related to bloodlines and family trees.
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2.19 The student will demonstrate use of vocabulary signs related to eras.
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2.20 The student will demonstrate use of vocabulary signs related to religion and race.
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Performance objectives for this outcome regarding describing and identifying things.
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2.21 The student will demonstrate use of vocabulary signs related to materials, food related words, and opinions of food.
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2.22 The student will demonstrate use of money signs from $1.00 to 999.00.
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Performance objectives for this outcome regarding weekend activities and vacation:
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2.23 The student will demonstrate use of vocabulary signs related to seasons, disrupted plans, opinions, about activities or events and holidays.
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2.24 The student will demonstrate the use of "year" and "age" signs.
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2.25 The student will demonstrate the ability to use appropriate vocabulary regarding problems that can occur over a weekend.
\ Learning Outcome 3: The student will demonstrate with a minimum of 70% accuracy, the understanding of the linguistic components of American Sign Language based on "Signing Naturally" units 13-17. Topics include: locating objects around the house, complaining, making suggestions and requests, exchanging personal information such as life events, describing and identifying things and talking about the weekend.
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Performance outcomes for this objective regarding locating things around the house.
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3.01 The student will be able to comprehend locative and sematic classifiers used to clarify items, objects and materials.
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3.02 The student will demonstrate use of refernce points marking the location of non-present objects.
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3.03 The student will understand and demonstrate appropriately ordinal numbers: first, second, third, etc.
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3.04 The student will understand and demonstrate quantifiers.
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Performance outcomes for this objective regarding complaints, making suggestions and requests:
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3.05 The student will demonstrate comprehension of recurring time signs.
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3.06 The student will demonstrate comprehension of continuous time signs.
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3.07 The student will comprehend use of the temporal aspect incorporating recurring and continuous signs.
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3.08 The student will demonstrate use of reference points making location of non-present objects.
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3.09 The student will demonstrate the ability to use locative and semantic classifiers to clarify items, objects and materials.
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3.10 The student will understand and demonstrate ordinal numbers: first, second, third etc.
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3.11 The student will understand and demonstrate quantifiers.
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3.12 The student will understand and demonstrate use of inflecting verbs to clarify the action from point A to point B.
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3.13 The student will demonstrate use of role shifting to show actions between more than one character in a narrative.
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Performance objectives for this outcome regarding exchanging personal information and life events:
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3.14 The student will demonstrate comprehension of "when" clauses.
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3.15 The student will demonstrate comprehension of contrastive structures.
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3.16 The student will demonstrate comprehension and identification regarding the use of descriptive and locative classifiers.
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3.17 The student will demonstrate comprehension of possessive forms of pronouns.
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Performance objectives for this outcome regarding describing and identifying things:
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3.18 The student will demonstrate comprehension when descriptive classifiers for shapes, patterns and textures are being presented.
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3.19 The student will demonstrate comprehension when using instrument classifiers.
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3.20 The student will demonstrate comprehension when using the non-dominant hand as a reference.
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3.21 The student will demonstrate comprehension when non-manual markers are present to clarify shapes, density and shades of colors.
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3.22 The student will demonstrate appropriate use of finger spelling and lexicalized finger spelling
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Performance objectives for this outcome regarding talking about weekends.
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3.23 The student will understand and demonstrate appropriate use of temporal sequencing.
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3.24 The student will understand and demonstrate appropriate use of time signs with durative aspects showing how long an avent has taken place.
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3.25 The student will understand and demonstrate element classifiers appropriately.
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Learning Outcome 4: The student will demonstrate with a minimum of 70% accuracy, an understanding of cultural norms and behaviors of people who are Deaf, based on "Signing Naturally," units 13-17.
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Performance outcome for this objective regarding cultural notes in the "Signing Naturally" workbook:
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4.01 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the cheers and songs used by Deaf people.
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4.02 The student will demonstrate knowledge of ASL poetry.
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4.03 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the history or alarms used by Deaf people.
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4.04 The student will demonstrate knowledge of ASL storytelling.
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4.05 The student will demonstrate knowledge of appropriate ways to get, direct and maintain attention.
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4.06 The student will demonstrate knowledge of Deaf drama.
| Week 1 | Introduction to the course/BEI test, Chapter One |
| Week 2 | BEI Study Guide, Chapter Two |
| Week 3 | Chapter Three |
| Week 4 | Chapter Four |
| Week 5 | Chapter Five |
| Week 6 | Take Home Test 1, Chapter Six |
| Week 7 | Chapter Seven |
| Week 8 | Chapter Eight |
| Week 9 | Chapter Nine |
| Week 10 | Chapter 10 |
| Week 11 | Take Home Test Two, Chapter Eleven |
| Week 12 | Chapter 12, Interpretation Practice, Begin reading Train Sorry Go |
| Week 13 | Chapter 13 |
| Week 14 | Chapter 14 |
| Week 15 | Review, Book Discussion |
| Week 16 | Final |
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