Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

All lectures and class activities will be conducted in ASL.

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

Use fingerspelling when linguistically appropriate

Apply principles of ASL numbering systems correctly

Produce fingerspelled words and numbers with correct hand and arm position, palm orientation, handshape and movement

Use cloze skills to determine semantic content of fingerspelled words Recognize the difference between rapid, careful and lexicalized fingerspelling

This course will include live and videotaped demonstrations, drills, lecture, student presentations, games and other hands-on activities.

Quizzes and exams assess receptive skills, and videotaped student narratives for assessment of expressive skills.

? Fingerspelling of names, proper nouns, place names, and technical terms? Lexicalized fingerspelling? ASL numbering systems:counting numbersinformational numbersordinal numbersranking numbersage numbersmoney numbersclock timecalendar timepronoun numbersnumbers for height (people)numbers for weight (people)measurement numberssports numbersmathematical numbers