ASL Storytelling 2
Developer: Sherry Hicks, MFA, CSC
Level: Introductory to advanced
Maximum Number of Participants: 16
Total hours: 6 hours
Students will gain both linguistic and practical hands on experiential
understanding by participation in the telling of ASL stories. Embedded
within these ASL stories is Deaf culture information. Students achieve
this goal by learning the aspects of ASL storytelling including: role shift,
eye gaze, characterizations, use of classifiers along with the general
aspects of how to build a story in American Sign Language. Students
rarely have the opportunity to tell these stories in ASL. The goal
of this module is to gain these pertinent skills to self-monitor for overall
skill enhancement and a deeper understanding of ASL storytelling in all
its aspects. The aim of fluency building for educational interpreters
who work with young Deaf and hard of hearing children is to be clear, accurate
and fluid. This will benefit the student seeking overall improvement
of expressive ASL skills from introductory to advanced users of ASL.
Taught in ASL
New York State Performance Competencies:
Prosodic Information: Affect/Emotion (appropriately use face & body)
Non-Manual Information: Sentence Types/Clausal Boundaries Indicated (e.g.,
y/nQ, whQ, if/then)
Non-Manual Information: Production and use of non-manual adverbial/adjectival
markers
Use of Signing Space: Comparison/Contrast, Sequence, Cause/Effect
Use of Signing Space: Use of Verb/Directionality/Pronominal System
Use of Signing Space: Location/Relationship Using ASL Classifier System
Signs: Signs Made Correctly
Signs: Fluency (rhythm & rate)
Message Processing: Appropriate Eye (gaze) Contact Movement
Message Processing: Developed Sense of Whole message (gestalt, chunking)
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