ASL 150 - Intralingual Interpreting

3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term.
Develop intralingual skills (English to English) in preparation for developing interlingual skills (English to ASL/ASL to English) by focusing on cognitive development in abstracting, summarizing, paraphrasing, memorizing and multi-tasking. Focus on semantics and restructuring that are suitable for ASL or English as the target language.

Prerequisite(s): ASL 114 and ASL 140 with a grade of C or better or permission of department chair.

Course Outcomes:

Examine general themes and issues in the realm of American Sign Language (ASL) and the Deaf communities.
- Explore issues in the Deaf communities.
- Explore the interpreting issues in the Deaf communities.
- Distinguish ASL as a language from artificial manual/communication systems.
Explore the mechanisms of learning and language acquisition.
- Distinguish between signing word-for-word as opposed to conveying concepts.
- Interpret source materials.
- Differentiate visual forms.
- Create visual memories and cues.
Explore trends and norms in social settings.
- Describe what are norms and values in Deaf culture.
- Explore the etiquette of interrupting and joining a signed conversation.
- Explore the etiquette of repetition.
Explore areas of language and response.
- Explore responses by confirming, correcting, and giving appropriate reactions.
- Explore repetition, paraphrasing, summarizing, and pattern inference.
Explore the areas of language and expression.
- Explore language by role shifting, sharing stories, information sharing, and rules explanation.
- Explore non-manual markers in ASL.
Explore retelling information.
- Create visual forms and cues.
- Examine tools of repetition.
Explore and examine in constructive feedback to peers.
- Review peers’ interpreting skills
Explore additional information about cultural norms and values in the Deaf communities.
- Attend Deaf events that are interpreted.
- Observe interpreting processes.