Laboratory classes are used to expand expressive and receptive skills. A sequel to ASL 101 which is designed to encourage students to talk about people in a more abstract way and learn to narrate events that occurred in the past. Students learn appropriate cultural behaviors for directing and maintaining attention as well as strategies for controlling the pace of conversation and resuming conversations after an interruption. Laboratory classes are used to expand expressive and receptive skills. A sequel to ASL 101-102 designed to encourage students to talk about people in a more abstract way and to talk about the environment removed from the classroom.
Students learn also to narrate past events.
Laboratory classes are used to expand expressive and receptive skills. American Sign Language 203 or placement into the course A sequel to ASL 203 with intensive practice involving expressive and receptive skills in storytelling and dialogue. Encourages more creative use of expression, classifiers, body postures, and the signing space. This course provides necessary transition from sign communication to interpretation between ASL and English. Course content includes written, spoken, and signed translation exercises.