Take your knowledge of ASL to the next level with this series of Advanced American Sign Language training programs. This series utilizes the skills and techniques of performers and teachers with extensive experience in the Deaf community and Deaf education. Each individual program presents a lecture, signed by Angela Stratiy, that focuses on a significant facet of ASL. The lecture is then followed by several stories signed in ASL by Deaf signers chosen to represent a variety of signing styles and regional signs within the Deaf community. Delve into the silent world of ASL and experience this complex and elegant language first hand. (3 x various lengths)
Subjects: Sign Language
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Advanced American Sign Language Workbook
This workbook which accompanies the series is designed to assist learners in developing ASL skills through self-paced modules augmented by formal ASL classes. The combination of self-study and classroom instruction facilitates self-assessment and supports the skills essential to language learning.
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Body and Gaze Shift in ASL / Classifiers in ASL / Space in ASL
Each of these programs focuses on a key element of ASL, including: identifying a narrator and characters of a story using Body and Gaze Shift; determining the difference between nouns, verbs and adjectives using ASL Classifiers; and the use of Space in ASL to establish a location for a particular referent’s discourse.
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Affect in ASL / Transition Markers in ASL / Grammatical Structure in ASL / Disco
Follow along with this next set of programs as the advanced techniques for ASL are augmented to include: the use of facial expressions to express Affect in ASL; the Transition Markers required to guide the flow of discourse in ASL; the importance of a signer’s entire signing space to identify Grammatical Structure; and the identification of the topic(s) of Discourse.
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Subjects and Objects in ASL / Fingerspelling in ASL / Numbers in ASL
The last set of programs in this advanced series covers the following integral facets of ASL: identifying the Subject and Object of a sentence and the inclusion of spatial referencing; clarifying the context of a discourse using Fingerspelling; and the elements to consider when signing Numbers in ASL.