American Sign Language Level 7

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate intermediate-advanced ASL narration skills to do the following:
  • Use role-shifting to clearly depict characters in a narrative sequence
  • Use appropriate eye gaze to match role-shifting
  • Appropriately incorporate the narrative techniques of constructed dialogue and constructed action 
  • Choose appropriate discourse markers to indicate topic changes
  • Use appropriate structure for conditional clauses
  • Use a wide variety of classifiers
  • Use a variety of pluralization techniques 
  • Recognise and use ASL ways of depicting rank, including ordinal numbers  
  • Use sequencing and discourse markers to explain a set of game rules
  • Maintain appropriate temporal aspect and use time/tense markers

• Demonstrate the use of appropriate register in ASL when narrating or storytelling
• Demonstrate appropriate conversation strategies and reciprocal signals
• Demonstrate versatility in tone, eg. ability to narrate authoritatively or diplomatically