SIGL 203 Fingerspelling and Numbers

This course addresses skill-building and the culturally appropriate use of both the manual alphabet and numbering system. The focus is on whole word and phase recognition common in signed conversations. Videotaping and feedback are necessary components or instruction. Required for Sign Language majors.

Credits

3 Credits

Semester Contact Hours Lecture

48

Semester Contact Hours Lab

0

Prerequisite

SIGL 101

Notes

Required for Sign Language majors.

SIGL 203Fingerspelling and Numbers

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I. General Information

Department

II. Course Specification

Course Type

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Credit Hours Narrative

3 Credits

Semester Contact Hours Lecture

48

Semester Contact Hours Lab

0

Prerequisite Narrative

SIGL 101

Notes and Advisories (only if included in catalog)

Required for Sign Language majors.

Repeatable

No

III. Catalog Course Description

This course addresses skill-building and the culturally appropriate use of both the manual alphabet and numbering system. The focus is on whole word and phase recognition common in signed conversations. Videotaping and feedback are necessary components or instruction. Required for Sign Language majors.

IV. Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:

  • Demonstrate proper ergonomic position when fingerspelling
  • Reproduce stretching exercises that contribute to improved mobility
  • Recall and describe linguistic rules governing the production and use of different fingerspelled words and numbers in context
  • Explain the cognitive processes involved in fingerspelled word recognition
  • Complete the exercises in rapid serial visual presentation included on the RSVP DVD
  • Summarize the information provided about fingerspelling using examples from ASL monologues
  • Describe and identify examples of careful, rapid, and lexicalized fingerspelling
  • Discuss the dynamic nature of the anxiety surrounding fingerspelled word recognition
  • Describe the process of template building in fingerspelled word recognition
  • Identify and describe the fingerspelling contained in the associated monologues
  • Discuss the structure and function of fingerspelling in American Sign Language
  • Comprehend fingerspelled words and numbers in context with a degree of accuracy appropriate for a student in at a corresponding ASL level
  • Integrate theory and practice to produce comprehensible fingerspelled words and numbers in discourse

V. Topical Outline (Course Content)

VI. Delivery Methodologies