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.
Prerequisite
SIGL 101
Notes
Required for Sign Language majors.
SIGL 203Fingerspelling and Numbers
Please note: This is not a course syllabus. A course syllabus is unique to a particular section of a course by instructor. This curriculum guide provides general information about a course.
I. General Information
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.
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
- Discuss the structure and function of fingerspelling in American Sign Language
- 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
- 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